PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a

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application, developed by Hong Jen Yee () from

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, which is meant to be a replacement for

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and

Thunar Thunar is a file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems, initially written using the GTK+ 2 toolkit and later ported to the GTK+ 3 toolkit. It started to ship with Xfce in version 4.4 RC1 and later. Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meu ...

. PCManFM is the standard file manager in

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, also developed by the same author in conjunction with other developers. Since 2010, PCManFM has undergone a complete rewrite from scratch; build instructions, setup and configuration have changed in the process. Released under the

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, PCManFM is free software. It follows the specifications given by

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for

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. Dissatisfied with GTK3, Hong Jen Yee experimented with Qt in early 2013 and released the first version of a Qt-based PCManFM on . He clarified, though, that does not indicate any departure from GTK in LXDE, saying: "The GTK and Qt versions will coexist". The new PCManFM-Qt is a core component of

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. In 2020 the

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community ported PCManFM to GTK 3.

Features

PCManFM's features include: * Full

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support with seamless access to remote file systems (able to handle sftp://, dav://, smb://, etc. when related back-ends of gvfs are installed.) * Twin panel * Thumbnails for pictures * Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons * Bookmarks * Multilingual * Tabbed browsing (similar to a

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) * Volume management (mount/unmount/eject, requires gvfs) * Drag & drop support * Files can be dragged among tabs * File association (Default application) * Provides the following views: icon, compact, detailed list, thumbnail, and tree on the left sidebar

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* Free file managers LXDE LXQt Free software programmed in C Software that uses Qt File managers that use GTK Software that was ported from GTK to Qt {{storage-software-stub

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