What is recommended file manager for i3wm?

mloskot
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I'm looking for suggestions of i3-friendly file manager which

fits well into the i3wm philosophy
lightweight
with no or very few dependencies
possibly fully-featured
easily or exclusively operated with keyboard
preferably graphical

For console, I consider Midnight Commander superior, but it's always good to learn about alternatives.

EDIT: Certainly, console itself is a very capable file manager what has been pointed in answers below. I should have clarified the question is about dedicated file management applications.

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answered Jun 8 '12

miguel
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Ranger is a curses-based file manager with vi key bindings that has many features and performs most common tasks very quickly.

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Ranger is always the recommended answer to anything :)

lkraav (Jul 8 '12)edit

Y like this: tilda + tmux + ranger

bitozoid (Oct 23 '12)edit

Thanks for the suggestion. Didn't know about it and it's such an amazing file manager.

tblups (Apr 14 '13)edit

I use ranger too

triplc (Jun 13 '14)edit

Does Ranger handle mounting flash drives? I use PCManFM and it does that.

zwl (Mar 5 '15)edit

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answered Jun 8 '12

joepd
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BASH/ZSH ;)

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answered Sep 1 '13

phairland
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I use double commander as well.

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answered Jun 11 '12

sysadamin
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i like vifm. http://vifm.sourceforge.net/

console based, nicer-looking than MC, and vim keybindings.

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answered Jun 15 '12

Atsutane

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ROX is a lightweight GTK2 Filemanager, I use it on every of my machines.

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I just tried this one tonight and indeed it fits well in a tilling window manager. The pinboard feature is nice to have kind of a desktop on one workplace only. You may have a bar on all workplace and below the i3bar with the panel feature. The overall is indeed light‑weight.

Hibou57 (Apr 5 '13)edit

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answered Jun 19 '12

MeanEYE
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updated Jun 19 '12

I am using my own file manager. Give it a shot. You might like it. :p

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Thanks! Despite I'm a bit sceptical about Python, your project looks very interesting. I'm going to give it a try. EDIT: After 5 minutes with Sunflower, it leaped to the first place on my list of the GUI twin panel file managers. Great work!

mloskot (Jun 24 '12)edit

@mloskot Thanks, glad you like it. It's still a work in progress and features are still missing, but it's being worked on. If you need a feature, just make a new enhancement request on our issues list and have patience. :D

MeanEYE (Jun 25 '12)edit

Wow! Missing features like doing dishes and walking the dog right? That thing looks fast, nicely laid out and incredibly intuitive. Nice work!

TheRaven (Jan 22 '15)edit

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answered Jun 1 '14

x3map
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Total Commander under wine !!!

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answered Jun 9 '12

bruno.braga

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People might criticize me here, but if you need all that (full-featured), why don't just stick with nautilus? At least for personal use (thumbnails of files, images and videos, etc), it has everything I need.

But I agree that the i3wm philosophy might be more toward the terminal-ish styles people shared here (at work I also rely on old ls/cp/rm/mv commands too).

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I prefer using keyboard than mouse, thus I indicated the i3wm philosophy. Nautilus is fully-featured, but it is not even close to what I consider as file management ergonomy. Ideal combination of GUI with keyboard and features is Total Commander, but it's Windows-only. MC is close, but misses GUI.

mloskot (Jun 9 '12)edit

Might sound odd, but I almost never use mouse, even under nautilus...

bruno.braga (Jun 10 '12)edit

If nautilus doesn't cut it, you could give krusader a try.

BroX (Jul 27 '12)edit

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answered Jun 9 '12

polaris202
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Try gentoo. It's graphical, lightweight, fully-featured. You can configure your favorite keybord shortcuts and much much more. And you don't need Gnome or some like that installed, just GTK.