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The default file manager for the lightweight desktop environment, LXDE

PCManFM's features include:

  • Full gvfs support with seamless access to remote filesystems (Able to handle sftp://, webdav://, smb://, ...etc when related backends of gvfs are installed.)
  • Thumbnails for pictures
  • Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons
  • Bookmarks
  • It is multilingual
  • Can be started in one second on normal machine
  • Tabbed browsing (Similar to Firefox)
  • Volume management (mount/umount/eject, requires gvfs)
  • Drag & Drop support
  • Files can be dragged among tabs
  • Load large directories in reasonable time (faster then some well-known file managers)
  • File association support (Default application)
  • Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view, and thumbnail view.
  • Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)
  • Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)
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set PCmanFM default folder view

In upmenu I can only preserve view for folders. I can press ctrl+4, but whats the way to change the default view permanent? (Lubuntu 14.04, PCManFM 1.2.0)
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How can i add a menu item to the right-click of different file managers

I have read this link, but there it's talking about nautilus, i am using a different file manager (PCManFm), but i want to add an item to all the right-click menus of the directory. I have done the following: added a file…
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How do I open pcmanfm in a specific directory?

I can't find the answer to this simple question. What command should I use to open pcmanfm in a specific directory? As an example, I want to run: pcmanfm /home/truc/musique. However, this doesn't seem to work and the manpage isn't very helpful.
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how could I make the PCmanFM don't display the windows system partition?

I use the ubuntu and the windows system on my pc, when i open the file manage PCManFM in Lubuntu, the left side show me my windows partition,ie my C: D: partition in windows, but i don't won't it display here, what should i do ? I have unchecked…
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Workaround for pcmanfm "module directory not accessible"

Environment: Ubuntu 14.04 + openbox. All udates/upgrades applied. When I run pcmanfm, I get an error "modules directory is not accessible." Browsing the net, it appears a bug was filed and a fix is already in the source code. However, I don' want to…
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PCManFM Icon not showing properly in lxde

As you can see, the icons in the toolbar are not showing properly, but when I hover the mouse on the icon, it displays just fine. This is quite annoying and I was wondering if it is a sign that my system is compromised (hacked) is this normal how…
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How to hide progress bars in PCManFM 1.2.5?

I am having some problem with the PCManFM on my Lubuntu 18.04LTS. The "Copying Files" progress bar always appears on top of the viewer so everytime I want to navigate through the files I need to move it out the way, it won't let me hide it without…
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PCManFM file size column is blank

Just installed Lubuntu (Ubuntu 17.10) on a desktop. The default file manager, PCManFM seems to work well with the exception that the file size column doesn't populate, it remains blank. Every other column populates correctly. PCManFM version is…
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How to update pcmanfm?

Running Ubuntu 12.04 - looking at the PCmanFM site it says the latest version is 1.2.3 (from 14 Oct. 2014) however my version in Synaptic says it is 0.9.10-0ubuntu2 with no option to upgrade. I have also tried installing with sudo apt-get install…
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PCmanFM desktop crash

Hi there I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and PCmanFM as the replacement for UNITY desktop. I am wondering how I might go about re-launcing PCmanFM desktop environment after it has crashed. What happens is that it crashes and unity takes over the…
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no right click on desktop

I am running UBUNTU 12.04 and login in under a UBUNTU 3d. Recently I lost the ability to right click on the desktop. What happened was that after installing PCmanFM there was a an option that appeared on a menu along the lines of "add menus from…
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File Manager PCManFM not the one as shown in USC

I've installed Ubuntu 13.10, and also installed PCManFM from USC, but when I launched it, it didn't work as indicated in this page. It works more like Files. Is it possible someone put in a wrong one in the USC ? And when I search in Dashboard, the…
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