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I find most of the GUI file browsers that I have come across pretty limited on options.

In xyplorer I really like:

  • filters and power filters,
  • multi-tabs,
  • scripting.

I am not necessarily looking for xyplorer in Linux ( unless it exist :) ) but some good options to look at.

N0rbert
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Your question can have many answers.

Personally I prefer to use Caja from MATE DE (GNOME 2 fork), below I give illustrations of its functionality:

  • filters

    1. Filters for current view is done by clicking Ctrl+S (or selecting Edit → Select Items Matching...):

      select items matching

    2. Other way to filter items is to use search function by clicking special button named Search documents and folders by name:

      search

  • multi-tabs

    1. Tabs are created by clicking Ctrl+T (or selecting File→New Tab):

      tabs

    2. You can use split view with F3 (or selecting View→Extra Pane):

      extra pane

      As it shown above this feature is very useful with Copy To or Move To actions.

  • scripting

    Scripting is done by

    1. using Caja Actions scripts. This feature is installed with caja-actions package and configurable from Caja-Actions Configuration Tool (caja-actions-config-tool). See other answer for details.
    2. using Caja Python extensions. This feature is installed with caja-extensions-common package. The user scripts should be placed in ~/.local/share/caja-python/extensions. See other answer for details.

Some additional remarks:

  • By default its Side Pane shows Places, but you can switch it to Tree view:

    Tree view

  • You can combine Places view in side pane with List View of main panel to show directory tree:

    List view with three

  • The Extra Pane (with F3) allows to combine views - for example List View in the left and Icon View in the right:

    List View + Icon View

If you are willing to try Caja you can install it with sudo apt-get install caja.

N0rbert
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  • Caja is no where near the caliber of XYplorer. Nothing comes close to XYPlorer in terms of features and functionalities. Where is the multi-rename, the sophisticated search, the preview pane, and many others? I tried Caja and it left me cold. And what's the point of "Combine views - for example List View in the left and Icon View in the right"? That's pointless. They could've changed it to Preview which is much useful – Maximo Dakila Oct 30 '20 at 04:50
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Since you can run bash shell scripts from there, being able to to add items of your choice to the file context menu in thunar means you can add virtually any new functions to thunar that you want, including the multi-rename, sophisticated search, and preview pane that https://askubuntu.com/users/1143020/maximo-dakila is concerned about. You're not limited to the functions that originally came with thunar. Useful tools for those shell scripts that you run from thunar are zenity and notify-send. In particular, zenity can be used to build new custom menus of your choice that get called up by a new item you've added to the thunar file context menu.

Details on how to customize the thunar file context menu are at: How to customize files context menu in Xubuntu XFCE Thunar file manager?

Anonymous
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Actually...with the help of WINE you can run XYplorer under Linux! ;) (see this thread)

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