2 pane, swiss army knife file manager?

[Ric Moore]

On 11/20/2012 12:00 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 20/11/12 11:49, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 19 November 2012 19:47:16 Basil Chupin did opine:
>>
>>> On 20/11/12 05:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, 32 bit, installed on a quad core Phenom.
>>>>
>>>> A decade back, midnight commander, aka mc, was _the_ tool of choice.
>>>> Stable, extremely capable with a builtin ftp client/server, one could
>>>> literally move a file from anyplace on the planet to anyplace else on
>>>> the planet if you knew the passwords for those places.
>>> [...............]
>>>
>>>> I just spent an hour scanning for 2 pane file managers in the synaptic
>>>> ALL listing without finding anything but mc.
>>>>
>>>> So, what are we supposed to use today?
>>> There is nothing wrong at all with mc - hasn't changed in the many years
>>> that I have been using it. If you are having troubles then you have not
>>> configured something correctly.
>>>
>>> Here is a screenshot of mc taken a few minutes ago:
>>>
>>> http://picpaste.com/MC-screen-mCGYSlHY.jpg
>>>
>>> Anything wrong with this?
>>>
>>> BC
>> Not a thing Basil.  But if I click on a graphics file, it will show it to
>> me, but its own screen will be destroyed in the process, unrecovereble
>> ANAICT.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene
>
> As I said, something wrong at your end :-) . I can view any graphic I
> want without losing mc when I close the graphic.
>
> Next.........:-)
Gene is using the noveau <sp?> driver which has a ways to go. I think he 
wouldn't get that tearing if he managed to install the nvidia driver 
with hockey. But, his custom kernel seems to mung that up. Ric



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