What would be the alternatives for thunar file explorer?

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I'm looking for something basic to just browse my movie and tv show files etc.

So i need something light and simple.

Im pretty new to Linux so something that is pretty easy to get around with. As stated below my machine is pretty limited.

I'm using a limited machine. IBM Thinkpad T43 with Intel 2ghz processor and 2gb of Ram

Oh im using Xubuntu by the way

I am afraid only you can answer that question. All file browsers have their own set of properties which you might like / need or not. — Jacob Vlijm, Sep 09 '14 at 20:26
Can you say exactly what you excpect from a file manager, or how the perfect file manager would be? As it is, this is not a good question because answers would depend on personal oppinions. Is should be a question for which one best answer could exist to fit this place. — Volker Siegel, Sep 09 '14 at 20:27
thanks for all the responses. im pretty new to linux ill try all the different ones out and see what fits my fancy. — Brandon71, Sep 09 '14 at 20:35
possible duplicate of What file managers are avilable for Ubuntu? — Eliah Kagan, Sep 09 '14 at 20:58

Mitch · Answer 1 · 2014-09-09T20:35:58.963

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Take a look at gentoo

gentoo is a graphical filemanager for Unix-like operating systems. It is written completely in C, using the GTK+ toolkit for its user interface. All file system access is done through the GIO library. It's quite fast, and configured graphically.^gentoo

You can also take a look at Nemo. To install, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/nemo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo nemo-fileroller

^webupd8

edited Sep 09 '14 at 20:35

answered Sep 09 '14 at 20:30

Mitch

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I got Nemo up and running it seems pretty smooth. seems alot more fluid than Thunar. Thank you. – Brandon71 Sep 09 '14 at 20:44
Also to remove Thunar do i just type in "sudo apt remove thunar" to uninstall it? – Brandon71 Sep 09 '14 at 20:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:03

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PCManFM (pcmanfm Install pcmanfm ) is a very good and light file manager.

sudo apt-get install pcmanfm

edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:03

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answered Sep 09 '14 at 21:47

viking

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '14 at 22:41

My suggestion is to try Marlin.

Marlin is a lightweight file browser built from the ground-up to be responsive easy to use, based on gtk3 and uses Gnome 3 technologies extensively.

Some key features of XFCE file-browser Thunar too are included to give it a certain slickness despite it being a File browser. Marlin uses 'extended actions' to manage files.

Features:

Tabbed browsing
Multiple-views
Single-click to open (default)
Configurable toolbars and interface
Plugin framework
Networking support (SSH, FTP, Windows share, HTTP and HTTPS)
Single click/double click to open file

To install it:

Open a terminal an run it:

sudo su
add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
apt-get update
apt-get install marlin

And enjoy it.

Also I like how you can colour coat the text background for each folder to make them stand out. — Brandon71, Sep 09 '14 at 23:02

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 09 '14 at 20:29

Nautilus is great but it uses more system resources than Thunar. If you go with nautilus, I suggest running the following command in 14.04 after installation to enable a better recursive search function:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search false

To disable recursive search, just type the following:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true

Nemo is also an option.

What would be the alternatives for thunar file explorer?

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