I am looking for a file manager similar to Linux’s Nautilus or Windows’ File Explorer. It should allow me to click and drag files, move them between folders, and open a context menu with a left mouse click. Features like playing videos and the ability to create or edit files would be a plus. I prefer software that is not heavy or overly feature-rich. In this regard, Filebrowser is almost perfect, but its usability falls short for high manual workloads. For instance, it lacks a context menu that opens with a left mouse click on a file. It also doesn’t offer a free selection area for selecting files with the mouse. Additionally, every time a file is moved, Filebrowser redirects the page to the target folder. This behavior is atypical and not very useful compared to real file managers.

  • Chinstrap@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Thunar or Pcmanfm are pretty good. They support pretty much all of the dbus calls(drag drop etc.). Only thing they lack is the support for GOA(GnomeOnlineAccounts a synch tool for common drives). Other than that they are on par with Nautilus feature wise. I think they are slightly faster too and allow custom commands.

    I don’t know a file manager with video player included. You can download mpv. It’s a pretty lightweight video player.