GNOME Commander

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GNOME Commander is a "two-pane" graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Commander aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands. Take a look at the screenshots, images tell a lot.

Read more About GNOME Commander and its features below.

Latest news:

New release! v1.2.8 Jun 29 2009

The GNOME Commander team proudly announces the next stable release of GNOME Commander: 1.2.8.

New features

• Support for PDF metatags in advanced file rename templates
• Revamped advanced file rename tool (regex backreferences ('\number'), profiles, upper/lowercase conversion, blanks trimming and much more)
• Support for metadata tags in internal viewer
• Support for single-click open mode
• Support for row alternate background in colour themes
• New colour theme: cafezinho
• New or updated docs: de, en, es
• New or updated translations: ar, cs, de, es, eu, fr, it, ja, pl, pt_BR, sl, sv
• New key bindings:
  • CTRL+E Open the history list for the command line
• New internal viewer key bindings:
  • T Show metadata tags (replaces the old E)
  • ALT+ENTER Show metadata tags

Read the Latest release news for more details about fixed bugs

New release! v1.2.7 Jul 28 2008

The GNOME Commander team proudly announces the next stable release of GNOME Commander: 1.2.7.

New features

• Support for all GnomeVFS network protocols (including SSH+FTP and WebDAV)
• User defined shortcuts to arbitrary programs
• Copying selected URIs to clipboard with ALT+click on toolbar button
• Revamped search dialog
• Revamped transfer progress dialog
• Updated help docs
• New or updated translations: cs, de, es, fr, it, ja, oc, pl, pt_BR

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GNOME Commander goes git! Jul 17 2008

GNOME Commander source tree is now mirrored in git repository. Using the web interface you can browse directory trees at arbitrary revisions, view contents of files (blobs), see log of a given branch, examine commits or download a snapshot of a given revision of a project.

New release! v1.2.6 Jun 01 2008

The GNOME Commander team proudly announces the next stable release of GNOME Commander: 1.2.6.

New features

• Root Mode for starting GNOME Commander with administrator privileges.
• GUI for keyboard shortcuts management.
• Open the current location in Nautilus file manager
• Multi-Rename-Tool - new $x and $X placeholders for random hexadecimal numbers
• Revamped search dialog
• Support for <super>, <hyper> and <meta> modifiers (since GTK+ 2.10)
• Updated help docs
• New or updated translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, eu, fi, fr, hu, it, oc, pl, sl
• New key bindings:
  • SUPER+F Search files

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New release! v1.2.5 Feb 29 2008

The GNOME Commander team proudly announces the next stable release of GNOME Commander: 1.2.5.

This release have a quite long list of bugs have that is fixed, and some new features worth mentioning:

• New support of various metadata in advanced file rename templates.
• Metadata tags in file properties dialog.
• Use of the GNOME authentication manager for user's security credentials
• Open terminal in the current directory
• Default GNOME theme icons for home, SMB and FTP locations
• User defined shortcuts to bookmarks
• Send files via email or instant messenger (using nautilus-sendto)
• Updated help docs
• New or updated translations: ar, bg, cs, de, dz, eo, es, eu, fr, oc, pl, pt_BR, ro, sl, sv
• New key bindings:
  • CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT Copying the current working directory from the active filelist to the inactive one
  • CTRL+N Open new connection to remote server (replaces the old CTRL+G)

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The unstable 1.3 branch.

In the unstable branch the team behind GCMD are now experimenting with python plugins that users can drop in the ~/.gnome-commander/plugins directory. The work on supporting meta-data also continues. The plan is to add this functionality to the searchtool, custom columns and the internal viewer. The TODO file gives a hint on what we are working on, or like to work on, and maybe appreciate some community efforts on. Users and developers are as usual welcome to contact us, ask questions and discuss the development on our mailinglists.

About GCMD

GNOME Commander is a free two pane file manager in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander, it is built on the GTK-toolkit and GnomeVFS. GNOME Commander aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands. This program is not aimed at users wanting the weather forecast in a sidebar in their file manager...

Features:

• GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions.
• GNOME mime types (MIME-Type management under development).
• FTP using GnomeVFS ftp module.
• SAMBA access.
• Right click mouse menu with the usual file operations to run, open, open with.., delete or rename files and folders, and also to set properties like ownership and permissions.
• Mouse context menu that easily can be extended by entries calling any kind of external application like viewers, editors or custom scripts to work on selected files or directories.
• Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting ("no-mount" option for just quick access to folders or otherwise automounted devices).
• Latest accessed folder history.
• Folder bookmarks.
• Plugin support under development.
• Fast file viewer for text, images and image meta data (Exif and IPTC).
• Tools for searching, quick file name search in current dir, symlinking, comparing directories. ...
• A tool for advanced renaming of files supporting various types of meta-data.
• Integrated command line.

Authors

The authors of the GNOME Commander project.

• Piotr Eljasiak, Project manager and main developer.
  Mail: epiotr "at the domain" use.pl
• Assaf Gordon, Developer (The internal viever).
  Mail: agordon88 "at the domain" gmail.com

A special "thanks" goes to Marcus Bjurman who where the original creator and former manager/developer. Marcus initiaded this project publicly in 2001 and developed it up to version 1.1.6 in 2004. Without him there would not have been any GNOME Commander. Thank you Marcus.

Contact

If you like to get in contact with us behind the project, then you can drop a mail to one of our mailing lists or contact the developers above directly.

If you found a bug, please report that on our Bugzilla at gnome.org, there you can also check if it is already reported, maybe even fixed in the git repository. If you have something to say about this website, then contact Magnus Stålnacke the author of these webpages.

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