(Modified 2009 Feb 16)

In Windows, I like the Explorer interface to navigate directories. Specifically, for example, I like the tree mode of exploding directories.

The file managers I've tried, in order of preference, are:

• Thunar -- the current file manager in XFCE
• X File Explorer -- based on WinCommander
• xffm -- the old XFCE file manager -- nice, but directory tree and file list not in separate frames
• Nautilus -- the GNOME file manager -- excellent, but rather large in size
• Xplore -- small, but shortcut keys don't work for me

Other file managers I experimented with:

• simple file manager (sfm) -- couldn't install
• gfb -- couldn't install
• zfm -- compile errors
• fm -- compile errors
• endeavour -- dependency problem
• gfile -- requires libraries that I didn't feel like installing
• worker -- error when running Makefile
• gentoo -- didn't like it
• X Northern Captain -- dependency problem
• flfm -- problem with X11 libraries
• Endeavor Mark II -- dependency problem
• rox -- didn't like it

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