PCmanFM vs Thunar - which one do you prefer?

[daquirm]

I'm really unsatisfied with the deafault Thunar file manager because of:
- lack of tabs or dual panel
- no chance to disable trash bin
- lack of details in detailed view
I vote for a change of Thunar for PCmanFM and you?

[ju1ius]

For me the advantages of PCManFM:

• Lower memory footprint
• tabs

the advantages of Thunar:

• the treeview
• the batch renamer
• custom actions
• plugins(thunar-shares, thunar-thumbnailers, thunar-vcs ...)
• Gigolo

Well... +1 for Thunar

[wasp]

For me the advantages of PCManFM:

• Lower memory footprint
• tabs

the advantages of Thunar:

• the treeview
• the batch renamer
• custom actions
• plugins(thunar-shares, thunar-thumbnailers, thunar-vcs ...)
• Gigolo

Well... +1 for Thunar

I agree

Thunar

[Shaine]

I've had issues with PCmanFM supporting image thumbnails in the past. I had not taken the time to troubleshoot that as Thunar worked fine for me, you can always open multiple instances and drag & drop across.

[daquirm]

you can always open multiple instances and drag & drop across.

It's all about speed and comfort. It's like saying that you don't need tabs in your favorite web browser. of course you don't really need them but it makes the experience better and faster.I agree that you can use the window tabbing provided by fluxbox. But you are wasting your time by doing something which is somewhere else by default. Initially I'm Ubuntu user, but I realized that by using Mint I don't spent that much time by customizing and tweaking thinks.
Actually since I removed Thunar and all plugins my problem with Opera described here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=165&t=55329 vanished, so I'm biased a bit, I changed some settings on freenas side also, so I'm not sure if removing Thunar has to do anything with that.
I can't confirm your trouble with thumbs, everything is fine with PCmanFM so far.

For me the advantages of PCManFM:
Lower memory footprint
tabs
the advantages of Thunar:
the treeview
the batch renamer
custom actions
plugins(thunar-shares, thunar-thumbnailers, thunar-vcs ...)
Gigolo

VCS and batch renamer I don't need , shares I don't need since I'm using NFS share by default, which is much quicker when using linux. Gigolo and custom actions are great though, Thumbs are in PCmanFm by default.

[jeffreyC]

Thunar is more compatible with conky than PCmanFM.
PCmanFM will run the desktop like Nautilus.
I am more comfortable with Thunar.
If you want something else it is easy to change.

[daquirm]

How do you mean it more compatible with conky?

[Gnarly]

For me I prefer Pcmanfm. Thunar wont show all my other partitions either mounted or not. That is irritating to me. It seems very light weight and fast on my Mint 9 Fluxbox install. If I wanted to use Thunar I would use XFCE.

[jeffreyC]

What I mean by less compatible with conky is that (like nautilus) PCmanFM is designed to run the desktop and interferes with conky. Yes, you can change it so it does not (see the LXDE forums for more on that) but for me it is not worth the trouble. You are free to choose and so am I.

[anticapitalista]

Personally I don't like pcmanfm nor thunar. Rox does it for me.

[daquirm]

Personally I don't like pcmanfm nor thunar. Rox does it for me.

I tried Rox yesterday but for me it lacks most of basic functions. It seems to be very very light though.

PCmanFM is designed to run the desktop and interferes with conky

I read the forums on that topic, but non of these issues appear when using Mint 9 Fluxbox. Since we are in Fluxbox section, it's little bit offtopic

[jeffreyC]

I read the forums on that topic, but non of these issues appear when using Mint 9 Fluxbox. Since we are in Fluxbox section, it's little bit offtopic[/quote]

I did not know if it was or not an issue. I have not tried PCmanFM in Fluxbox.

If you want tabs fluxbox is a tabbing window manager.

[daquirm]

Another reason why to make a change is, that thunar doesn't automount/show other ext4 partitions..

[daquirm]

Recently I started using pcmanfm2 from the Lubuntu repository, which is completely rewritten and the experience is even better than with the previous version, since it has integrated support for SMB and FTP. It claims to be as resource efficient as the previous version. So i really recommend switching to this version.

[jeffreyC]

As was previously mentioned Thunar has custom actions.
Basically anything that can be done with a CLI can be made into a custom action.
And with Fluxbox you can group windows, so tabs are no real advantage.

[linuxviolin]

Both have problems. PCmanFM is not bad but I prefer Xfe.

About Rox, it has one of the most stupid interface... although it is not bad itself.

[daquirm]

As was previously mentioned Thunar has custom actions.
Basically anything that can be done with a CLI can be made into a custom action.
And with Fluxbox you can group windows, so tabs are no real advantage.

In PCmanFM2 there's custom command line action option, you should really try it before blind posting. PCmanFM2 differs bigtime from PCmanFM, native support for FTP and SMB is huge advantage for me.
Native tabbing (pressing ctrl+t) is 10 times faster than opening single windows and than merging them together, so it is advantage using it.

Try adding this repo
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
then install pcmanfm2

[jeffreyC]

But with the apps file you can have Fluxbox group the windows for you which is what I meant

[daquirm]

Apps file? I must have missed something, what is that?

[jeffreyC]

http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title ... _apps_file

The last subject at the bottom Grouping apps via the apps file