twin-panel filemanager

[Member papahippo]

Hi antiX community.

Over the years I’ve become accustomed (addicted?) to using a twin-panel file manager. In recent years my choice had been ‘Krusader’; Indeed that’s why I use MX-KDE as my main distribution.

On a low-resource system, antiX(21) is more appropriate. I’m reluctant to install Krusader and bring all its ‘foreign’ KDE libraries on board, so I’m looking for an alternative. For now, I have installed ‘Sunflower‘ (with some difficulty). This works but lacks some features that I love in Krusader, e.g. the ability to create symbolic links by dragging and dropping. I’m not too worried about network functionality. I intend to handle that with sshfs via command line or /etc/fstab.

I’m not averse to writing python plugins for Sunflower but – being eternally lazy – would prefer a a ready made alternative. Any suggestions, anyone?

[Member DaveW]

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Have you tried Midnight Commander?
Easiest way to access it, is from Terminal. Type “mc” (without quotes) at command line.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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zzzFM is installed on antiX and can be multi-pane

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member papahippo]

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Thanks. I have acknowledged that your reply is helpful and I have indeed used mc in the past, but now I’m looking for something less console-like… but maybe I should give mc another look – partly for nostalgia and partly because, who knows, it may grow on me again!

[Member papahippo]

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Thanks anticapitalista (previous thanks were to DaveW – I’m just getting used to forum message organization!).
zzzFM certainly looks promising, especially now that I’ve discovered how much configuration can be done from the context menu. The on-line help info looks really helpful (actually better than that of Krusader IMHO) so I’m going to give it a good read.

Larry / papahippo

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