Fwd: Re: [xubuntu-users] Tip: Use PCManFM

Eero Tamminen oak at helsinkinet.fi
Tue Oct 30 23:08:33 UTC 2012


Hi,

On keskiviikko 31 lokakuu 2012, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
> Perhaps pcmanfm should be shipped with xubuntu. It has less bugs, is
> faster, has more features

Could you list these bug and feature differences, or point
e.g. to a wiki page listing them?


> and less dependencies.

What about translations, which one has better coverage for
languages supported by rest of XFCE?


> But then I suppose it would deviate from an 'authentic' xfce environment.

Well, there's only so far one can go from XCFE, until it's LXDE,
and Lubuntu already has that...


	- Eero

> On Oct 30, 2012 10:44 PM, "Michael Höhne" <mih-hoehne at web.de> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:29:10 +0000
> > 
> > schrieb David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> > > On 30 October 2012 21:23, Michael Höhne <mih-hoehne at web.de> wrote:
> > > > David Gerard wrote:
> > > >> PCManFM is the LXDE file manager. It makes Thunar look fat. You
> > > >> can
> > > > 
> > > > But: You can't use it with the Places-Addon in the Panel.
> > > 
> > > I just did successfully in Xfce 4.10 (Xubuntu 12.10). (Added
> > > "Places", went to a folder, it opened in PCManFM.)
> > 
> > I use 12.04 with Xfce 4.10. But it opens directories with Thunar!?
> > 
> > > > And it has no
> > > > user defined actions for selected file types...
> > > 
> > > What do you mean?
> > 
> > I think it's called "custom actions" (I use german as my language).
> > You can define actions for some filetypes/directories/... which will be
> > shown when you (right-)click on a file/directory of that type(s).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
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