ROX-Filer ROX-Filer is a drag-and-drop based filemanager.
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ROX-Filer is a drag-and-drop based filemanager. ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the X Window System.You can use ROX-Filer as a small and fast filer within your current desktop......or get it to manage your pinboard, panels and applications.Here are some key features of "ROX Filer":· Fast scanning of directories (in the background),· Uncluttered display (popup menus are used throughout),· Background file operations (copy, move, link, delete, permissions, find),· Powerful expression-based find feature with on-line quick reference (eg 'mtime after 2 days ago and size > 10Mb' finds files based on their modification time and size)· Mounts and unmounts filesystems (just Shift-Click on the mount point),· Supports the XDND protocol, which provides for drag-and-drop file loading, and the new XDS extension which allows drag-and-drop saving,· VfS support allows browsing around inside zip files (and other types of archive),· Fully configurable from the Options dialog box,· User-defined key bindings for all menu entries,· A pop-up minibuffer allows navigating the filesystem using shell-style tab completion,· The minibuffer can also be used for quickly entering shell commands,· Full manual provided (HTML format),Other features:XDNDA common drag-and-drop protocol used, for example, by the GNOME desktop. This allows data to be loaded into an application by dragging it from a filer window to a program. The full specification is given in . XDSAn extension to XDND that allows applications to save data by dragging an icon back to a filer window. The full specification is given in . ChoicesA simple, but flexible, system for managing user choices. See for details. Application directoriesSelf contained relocatable applications, where installation is as simple as copying it to where you want it and uninstalling it is just a matter of deleting a directory. Described later in this documentation. ThumbnailsThe filer can be made to display image files by using the image itself for the icon, instead of a generic `this-is-an-image' icon. Very useful for organising a directory full of photos! See for details (spec is still in developement). Shared MIME Info DatabaseIn the past, each desktop had its own database of rules for determining the type of files. The Shared MIME Info Database unifies these into a single system shared by all desktops. Icon ThemesCollections of file icons, called themes, can be installed (eg, to `~/.icons'). You can switch between themes in the Options box. Once other desktops support this fully, themes will be sharable between desktops. DNotify support (Linux only)If used with a recent Linux kernel (2.4.x series), the filer will notice changes to directories automatically. On other systems, directories will update when the pointer is moved over them.What's New in This Release:· The MIME icon naming was updated to the latest freedesktop.org scheme.· This should make GNOME themes work better with ROX-Filer.· A work-around was added for a panel placement problem with Compiz-fusion 0.7.4.· The "Path" key in .desktop files is now supported.· The Vietnamese, Russian, Italian, and French translations were updated, and some bugs were fixed. What's New in This Release: · Support back-references when bulk renaming (Rogut?s). Back references from to 9 can be used in the "With:" field of the bulk renaming dialog. Every back-reference is replaced by a captured substring from the "Replace:" field. As a side effect, , 1, ..., 9 become special characters and they must be escaped with an additional backslash (e.g. \3). · Use inotify to monitor directories when available, in preference to dnotify (Stephen Watson). · Launch buttons in the options dialog now look for a locally installed app when 0launch isn't available (Stephen Watson). · Make the symlink box remember the "relative" setting between invocations (Bernard Jungen).

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