XWC, X WinCommander File Manager
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2000 Maxim Baranov
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/7912/xwc.html>
or <http://study.haifa.ac.il/~mbaranov/xwc.html>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Icons were taken from different file managers: gentoo, xplore, dfm and
some of them were modified.
Description
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X file manager for X11 written using the FOX toolkit.
It has Windows Commander or MS-Explorer look and it's very fast and small!
Features
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- Two file panels
- Directory List
- Commander/Explorer interface
- Status line
- File associations
- Auto save registry
- Right mouse click pop-up menu
- Change file(s) attributes
- Mount/Unmount devices
- Bookmarks
- Color schemes
- Drag and Drop ( ctrl - copy, shift - move, alt - sym link )
- Extracting archives
- Install/Upgrade RPMs
- Tool tips for long file names
- Key bindings:
o F5 - copy (in two panels mode)
o F6 - move (in two panels mode)
o F7 - new folder
o F8 - delete
o F9 - attributes
o F10 - quit
o bspace - go up
o ctrl-h - go home
o ctrl-a - select all
o Insert - select current item
o ctrl-m - mount
o ctrl-u - umount
o ctrl-r - refresh
o tab - switches between panels
o ctrl-c - copy to clipboard
o ctrl-x - cut to clipboard
o ctrl-v - paste from clipboard
Install
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Just run ./install (thanks to Robert Hamberger)
Configuration
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Note, you don't have to edit any configuration files by hand, but
you may want to know, how the FOX registry works.
By default system-wide configuration file Desktop is located in
/usr/local/lib/foxrc, which is overridden in ~/.foxrc/Desktop and
the latter is overridden in ~/.foxrc/XWC.
Every FOX application reads the file Desktop, but XWC is specific to the
X WinCommander.
GIF or BMP Icons are in /usr/local/lib/foxicons. You can change the path in
Options->Change icon path.
(you may want to change it, if XWC is installed not in /usr/local)
Example of ~/.foxrc/XWC :
[PROGS]
xterm = "xterm +sb " # command to run xterm
viewer = "textview " # default viewer
editor = "textedit " # default editor
[OPTIONS]
width = 617
height = 516
confirm_delete = 1
confirm_overwrite = 1
confirm_quit = 0
ask_before_copy = 1
copy_in_bg = 0
[RIGHT PANEL]
liststyle = 8388608
lastdir = /etc
[LEFT PANEL]
liststyle = 8388608
lastdir = /home/max/fox
# your own file associations for X WinCommander
# format: ext = "open,vew,edit;Short Description;big_icon.gif;mini_icon.gif;MIME;"
[FILETYPES]
wav = "xanim,,;Sound;sound_32x32.gif;sound_16x16.gif;;"
tar.gz = "guitar,guitar,guitar;Archive;tgz_32x32.gif;tgz_16x16.gif;;"
[SETTINGS]
# where to search for icons
iconpath = ~/.foxicons
Bugs
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please report to me (m_baranov@yahoo.com).
Have Fun.
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Some hacks by Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com>, Copyright (c) 2000 Mandrakesoft
- customize: better default filetypes associations
- customize: now default start has a tree and a filelist, instead of two filelists
- hack: added support for automatic record of file selectors name/type/size/date/user/group/attr sizes
- hack: now ctrl+a after ctrl+a deselects all [as expected]
- hack: added support for optional automatic record of filetypes associations when invoking "open with"
I have called this new version 0.91.4patch0
NEW VERSION: 0.91.4patch1
- customize: better default filetypes associations
- fixed "associate..." when passed a filename with no extension
- fixed page up/down behaviour
- fixed missing key shortcuts
- added keyboard first-letter browsing
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