2 pane, swiss army knife file manager?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 11/21/2012 07:38 AM, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Am Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:53:37 +0000
> schrieb Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
>
>>> No more. In Nautilus 3.6.2, they dropped it tosimplify stuff.
>>> And actually - I agree with that. It's so easy to open two windows
>>> side by side…
>>
>> Can you describe exactly how to do that please?  It seems to take me a
>> lot of clicks, so perhaps I am missing something.
>
> Run
> ================================SNIP============================================
> #!/bin/sh
>
> set -- $(xwininfo -root| awk -F '[ :]+' '/ (Width|Height):/ { print
> $3 }') width=$1
> height=$2
>
> win1="$(xwininfo| awk '/^xwininfo: W/ { print $4 }')"
> win2="$(xwininfo| awk '/^xwininfo: W/ { print $4 }')"
>
> wmctrl -i -r "$win1" -e 0,0,0,$((width/2)),$height
> wmctrl -i -r "$win2" -e 0,$((width/2)),0,$((width/2)),$height
> ================================SNIP============================================
>
> and klick the two windows
>

While I certainly appreciate all the time and effort authors put into 
the FOSS I use, I sometime wonder about their thought process.  I can't 
imagine having to come up with your innovative solution above is simpler 
than hitting F3.  Then too one of the things I like about the split 
window is the copy/move to other pane feature.  I doubt that is possible 
with two windows.

Regards,  Jim