Tag Archive for file manager

Making Nautilus work like it does in Ubuntu for another GNOME using distro

July 26, 2009 No comments

It’s a personal preference but I like the way that Nautilus (GNOME’s default file manager if you need to know) is set to work in Ubuntu by default. For some tastes, it might look too similar to Windows Explorer but having all the action happening in the same window is a convenience that users of other GNOME using distributions may not realise is there at all. By default, Debian and Fedora use what is called spatial mode with each double-clicking action on a folder icon firing up a new window. Personally, I think that clutters the desktop without good cause but it’s easy to change. All that’s needed is to go to Edit>Preferences in a Nautilus window, proceed to the Behaviour tab and toggle the Always open in browser windows tick box as shown below. Quite why this is not the default in all GNOME using distributions is beyond me but others may prefer what I dislike and Linux is all about choice, after all. Well, you can decide to use Gnome Commander instead and there are times when I do the same along with being a command line user too.

File Management Preferences

Linux, Software

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Twin-pane Windows file managers

May 7, 2007 No comments

When Microsoft moved away from its two pane file manager with the advent of Windows 95, I was one of those who thought it a retrograde step. While two Windows Explorer instances can be tiled on a desktop, the old two pane paradigm still has its uses and there are third party purveyors of such things. Salamander from ALTAP is one such option as is SpeedProject‘s SpeedCommander. I have been using the latter for most of a year now and I would gladly pay for it but for the fact that SpeedProject’s payment system isn’t working. It’s just as well that the demo continues to function fully following expiry of its evaluation period. It even takes the twin pane paradigm further by adding sub-panes within each of these but that isn’t all to this major update to the Norton Commander concept. Recently, I downloaded the free version of Salamander to take a look and, though basic, it does a lot of what I ask of it so I might continue to see how it performs and may even evaluate the commercial version to see how it goes.

Software, Windows

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