PCManFM

Category: File Managers

Software homepage: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM  

(38 votes, average: 4.32 out of 5)

PCManFM’s features include:

• Full gvfs support with seamless access to remote filesystems (Able to handle sftp://, webdav://, smb://, …etc when related backends of gvfs are installed.)
• Thumbnails for pictures (default only for local pictures) with optional EXIF support
• Desktop management – shows wallpaper and desktop icons, highly customisable, with possibility to have different wallpapers on each desktop and on each monitor
• Bookmarks – saved places. You can see them in the left panel of PCManFM. Visible from other Gtk+ applications.
• Multilingual (translated in several languages)
• Can be started in one second on normal machine
• Tabbed windows (similar to Firefox tabs)
• Volume management (mount/unmount/eject, requires gvfs) with optional automounting
• Drag & Drop support
• Files can be dragged among tabs
• File association support (e.g. default application to open)
• Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view and thumbnail view.
• Standard compliant (follows the FreeDesktop.org guidelines)
• Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)
• Trash can support
• Applications menu virtual folder support
• Applications system menu full editing is available
• File system advanced search
• Optional two-panel view mode
• Full accessibility support for persons with disabilities
• A possibility to have different view options for some folders
• Customizable main window layout
• Third-party plugins support
• Extended terminal emulators support
• File templates support (both GNOME and KDE styles are supported) to simple creation of new files