replacement or supplement for Nautilus

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:31 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 16:38, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > For the first time in the 10 years I have been using Ubuntu I am not
> happy with the file manager.  I think Gnome removed a very useful feature.
> I want to be able to select all the files in a directory to copy or move.
> There does not appear to be a way to do so.
>
> I hat to install 18.04-1 in a VM to check, but yes it does.
>
> You press Ctrl-A, same as basically every file manager on every OS on
> the planet, or you can right-click on a blank bit of background in a
> folder and pick "select all" from the context menu.
>
> If you are looking for a replacement file manager, I recommend Nemo.
>
> It's a fork of the old version of GNOME 3 Nautilus (now called
> "Files") before the GNOME 3 team started ripping out all the features.
> It still has lots of nice stuff like multiple panes, a tree view in
> the left pane, a disk space meter and more. I use it in Unity on
> 16.04.
>
> It works fine with Unity and GNOME 3 and doesn't have that many
> dependencies because it's built on Gtk3 the same as they are.
>
> If you want, you can use Nemo to manage your desktop, but be warned,
> this will break if you upgrade to a new version of Ubuntu. For that
> reason I no longer do so.
>
> Caja from MATE is based on an older, GNOME 2 codebase. It's also fine
> but will pull in more stuff you don't really need, and I don't think
> it can manage your desktop.
>
> There are tons of 3rd party ones which won't integrate with GNOME at
> all but are perfectly good if that's what you want, but Nemo
> integrates more closely and with less overhead than anything else.
>
> However, even the castrated "Files" app in GNOME 3.30 can still do
> "Select all". I do not know where you were looking for it -- one of
> the things the devs have ripped out is the menu bar and toolbar -- but
> it is still there and it still works.
>
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Right click in a blank space!  I can not believe I did not think of that. I
tried right clicking on the banner, which gets you another menu, right
click on an icon yet another.

thanks


garyk
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