An Awesome File Manager Called XNC

raylpc · Last edited by raylpc on Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

I just installed XNC (The X Northern Commander) file manager. (suggested by earlNameless, thanks a lot.

) It just rocks - super light, fast, functional and configurable. If you're tired of nautilus or konqueror or even xffm (which I was using just one hour ago), you should have XNC.

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1. It comes with a terminal. Ctrl + o swithes between the terminal and the panel. I just keep XNC open, since it's small and have acess to a file manager and a terminal any time.

2. Every hot key and mouse click is configurable. There are 75 hot key combinations and 25 mouse click combination you can configure in ~/.xnc/xnc.keys and ~/.xnc/xnc.mouse.

3. The configuration files are very easy to understand, like the style config for fluxbox. Check out files in ~/.xnc/

4. It has Virtual File System for all kinds of archives, tar, gzip, tgz and even rpm, etc. so we can just browse their contents as if we are in a normal directory.

5. In addition to excellent keyboard manipulation, it supports drag and drop (XDND). It claims to interract very well with GNOME and KDE programs. (Just tried that out with k3b, and it rocks.

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6. It's easy to work with. It has 2 panels, one is the source panel, the other is the target. And it has 9 side bookmarks and a trash.

7. It's a Swiss army knife. Beside a terminal, it comes with a very light text vewer and editor (IVES); it provides you fast man page acess, memory, disk and ps info. In the ps info window, you can even send all kinds of signals to a process including the kill signal.

8. It's beautiful. It comes with the Mac aqua theme. Just choose that in the options.

That's what I have experienced so far. Give it a try just

nx12 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 193

Nice app!

Just one question: how can I set it to work with TTF fonts.
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raylpc · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:

You can edit ~/.xnc/xnc.ini
I use lucidasans font, my xnc.int looks like:

Scirious · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

Can it browser windows machines and work with their shares?

Scirious.

Souperman · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:57 am Post subject:

Wow, I remember seeing XNC about 2 years ago and it was UGLY! I'm so glad it looks a lot better now ... I've just switched from Windows and I've been missing Total Commander.

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lun_IX · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:50 am Post subject:

Total Commander is worth using Crossover Office...

or a Win running under VMWare...

Souperman · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:14 am Post subject:

I'll be installing it tonight and I'll let you know

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lun_IX · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:29 am Post subject:

fine!

blue.sca · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

seems to be a nice alternative

thx for the tipp
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NuclearFusi0n · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 297

screenshot?
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Souperman · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:28 am Post subject:

http://www.xnc.dubna.su/shots.html
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stgreek · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:

Just installed it, looks very nice. First file manager that reminds me of good old Norton Commander. If it is as useful as that was, definately a keeper!
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sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

what a great "discovery",
leaving windows and it's Speed Commander (Norton Commander like)
i also wanted to have this similar tool

just installing it, anyway the screenshots look like I will like it

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stateq2 · Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us

it's an ok app....not much spectacular about it. personally, i prefer emelfm or rox(when i feel like doing drag and drop stuff). i guess it's a good alternative if you want to replece natilus or konqueor w/ something less bloated.
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guram · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

Nice. Two wishlist items right off-hand though:

make all windows resizable (especially the process info)
open terminal in the either pane.

raylpc · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject:

One feature I really want is to use the MIME type instead of extension to determine the app association. I hope I can join the dev and add this feature in summer. The app is so nice that I want to contribute, but small enough so that I can handle it.

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

For those of you who like the NC look-a-likes, I've also found and use Krusader and TuxCommander. Worth looing at if you're looking for alternatives.

As far as TotalCommander (aka WinCommander) for Windoze, I've been using it for years. It's the first 3rd party app I install when putting together a windoze box. Total Commander is seriously awesome. period. ....just wish they'd port if to *nix.

Jowilly · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 319

Flammie · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:13 am Post subject:

This seems usable. Currently I'm having dozen of mc's lying around in terminal windows. It's too bad neither mc nor xnc can handle utf-8 nice, since I mostly do need it.

Souperman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

I forgot I had this bookmark.

_MORE_ choices :lol:

Souperman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject:

ed0n · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject:

We got many file managers.
But the difficult thing is to choose between them.
Rox is good and fast too.

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

Ya, exactly that is which makes it difficult to find the best.

I think everyone find this file manager best,
to which kind he was used to.

So in my case I was used to the norton commander like type.

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