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Because there are quite a few window manager users around here these days, I thought I'd begin sharing info and pointers about some of the tools I find useful, fast, and fun. Be advised most are TUI, cli based.

fff – A Simple Fast File Manager for Linux

Is my first share. This tool is written by DylanAraps. Instructions for its install may be found here (if you want the PC version).

https://www.tecmint.com/fff-fast-file-m ... for-linux/

If you prefer to read the material by Dylan, who may be just a tad less than-PC, you may find it his materials (I recommend these):

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Nice one. I am also a great fan of TUI stuff, with a much patched cmus as my music player, for instance. Mainly for speed and because TUI apps are far less bloated than GUI monsters. More often than not, they are also more intuitive in actual use than some of the pointy-clicky abominations, though that's YMMV territory.

Re TUI file managers, I was long using ranger (https://github.com/ranger/ranger ). V powerful but not the fastest. Then I swung into the opposite direction with an heavily modified version of cfiles (https://github.com/mananapr/cfiles ), superfast but more limited. Nowadays I am using lf (https://github.com/gokcehan/lf ), mostly a ranger clone but much faster.

... You know, there's also (the famous) nnn :)

Charlie Brown wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:41 pm ... You know, there's also (the famous) nnn :)

nnn is a very useful tool to have and I keep a copy of it around on nearly all of my machines. There's also yazi, which I just discovered a week ago, which bills itself as async, so you can move files without interrupting the UI, a feature which nnn still does not provide.

Charlie Brown wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:41 pm... You know, there's also (the famous) nnn :)

I know, I actually looked into that a good while ago but something wasn't to my liking though I don't remember what it was. And @DukeComposed I'll check out yazi, that's a new one for me.

The thing for me is that I had written a simple TUI file manager under Windows myself (decades ago and I kept updating it for every new incarnation of the Windows API). I am so used to the way this thing worked that even today I prefer apps which are similar (or can be made similar, eg with macros and/or key-bindings). The good thing about cfiles, as it's written in C, was that it had been pretty easy to adapt to my wishes.

Perhaps I should start a tui file manager thread. There are quite a few.

Thanks a lot , Now there's more that capture my curiosity and then of course learning , gotta love it