High performance graphical file managers?

Fenster

I have Fluxbox running on my laptop, and its great, as its fast as hell. However, I have to go back to Konquerer or Nautilus for file managment, but I find them slow as hell on my laptop, which is frequently quite annoying.

Also, my google-fu has failed me on this as my searches just returned home pages for providers ("why yes, we are high-perfomance file managers!").

Now I'm sure these are out there and I'm also sure that one or another person here would've used them. What I'm looking for is something that runs in fedora, is graphical, allows me to drag and drop and (optionally) has tabs.

I don't need any sort of gee-whizzery, only that its fast and isn't a system hog.

Hecate

xffm is quite nice, its the file manager for the Xfce4 WM.

pickarooney

you could try krusader, but I fear it may be as much of a hog as konqueror.
I avoid using file managers as much as possible on my system as they're all either treacle-slow or haven't enough features.

Fenster

pickarooney wrote:

you could try krusader, but I fear it may be as much of a hog as konqueror.
I avoid using file managers as much as possible on my system as they're all either treacle-slow or haven't enough features.

I agree, but its handy nonetheless to have them up in a window instead of having to wade through 3 consoles

Fenster

I grabbed xffm through apt. Really nice, it is.

ishnid

I've heard good things about gentoo, though I haven't used it myself.

Apparently the lowercase 'g' at the start is *very* important, which differentiates it from Gentoo, the distro.

nadir

xfe is what I use and probably what you are looking for.
Its a windows file explorer clone, because the M$ exploror file manager rules (ADMIT IT )
like flux its written in c and damn fast, I think it works really well with fluxbox.
No previews though, but then again you want speed.

pickarooney

I've been trying out a series of them over the last few days. None have quite managed that combination of feature-richness and speed. XFE is compiling at the moment (6th? time lucky I hope, after a lot of fox depency problems).

I got a good few recommendations here.

Fenster

I gave xfe a good try just now. I got shot down in flames on the dependencies, especially when it informed me I needed packages I already had installed.

pickarooney

I've progressed with xfe. Managed to get it installed but when I run it, it can't find some installed parts.
To install xfe 0.72 I had to have fox-1.2.9 installed (I had previously 1.1 and 1.3, but they wouldn't do).
So it's all installed, but when I run it it can't find libFOX-1.2.so.0, which is in /usr/local/lib. ldconfig didn't help.
I think there's probably some trigger needed in the ./configure step, but the INSTALL file doesn't say what that might be.

nadir

hehe
emerge xfe
:cool:

try ld /usr/local/lib/libFOX-1.2.so.0
and if that doesnt work ./configure --help, see if you can set the lib path

OfflerCrocGod

nadir wrote:

hehe
emerge xfe
:cool:

Truly, life is sweet for those who walk in the path of the light Brother nadir

pickarooney

Bleh, something rotten in the state of /usr/local/lib:
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address

But fear not, o brethren of the blind and crippled RPM fraternity, I've tried out
this beauty and it is the biz.

P.S. I urpmied it, for minimal brain-pain.

fragile

IT doesn't support drag&drop or some other GUI features, but Midnight Commander is a very powerful file manager