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Welcome to the project site of the Tux Commander application. Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers. The main goal of this project is to create powerful and user friendly file manager for Unix operating systems. General features: Using Object Pascal language might be considered as limiting factor, especially when using Kylix as a compiler. The fact is that the application runs smoothly on all mainstream Linux distributions and it's constantly tested for compatibility. A port to FreePascal compiler is planned in near future, bringing better compatibility and portability to more platforms. This project uses Pascal GTK2 bindings from the gtk2 for pascal project, which is now part of FreePascal v2.0 distribution. |
| Plugins |
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Several VFS plugins are available at the moment. To keep main application and modules separated for better maintenance, all plugins are distributed within the tuxcmd-modules package. It's worth to mention that some modules might have dependencies to various libraries not available on your system. It's strongly recommended to install latest libstdc++6 libraries which are needed for modules written in C++. The current VFS implementation lacks support for extended features of both archiving and remote filesystems. This is one of the main goals for 0.6.x series. gnomevfs plugin
This plugin is built on top of the GnomeVFS library, a filesystem abstraction library from the Gnome desktop environment. This library provides access to many types of resources, we're using it for remote filesystems such as FTP, SFTP, Windows shares (SMB) and WebDAV repositories. Functionality depends on your system configuration, it's known to have some issues across different versions. This is something that cannot be affected from the side of the plugin, please do not report troubles or errors when using this plugin.
ZIP plugin
This plugin uses ZipArchive library, Copyright (C) 2000 - 2007 Artpol Software - Tadeusz Dracz. Both plugin and the library are pretty stable for normal use at their current versions.
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| Participation in project development |
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At the moment, the project is actively maintained only by one developer. I'm developing it in my free time and cannot guarantee flexible responses to bugs and new features, sometimes experiencing shorter or longer downtimes. There are several ways how to contribute to this project: Please check the Development section for more informations. I will appreciate any support, if you find bug or inconsistency, please let me know. |
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Profiles
Tux Commander supports profiles, which means you can have more than one settings per user. User settings is stored in several files in the ~./tuxcmd directory with the standard INI-like structure, easy to edit. Profile is selected and loaded on application start and can be specified by the
--profile=<PROFILENAME> commandline parameter. Some settings like file actions are not profiled and are common for all profiles within one user.This feature might appear useless to most people, but could be useful in some cases (e.g. debugging purposes). File types
A Filetype subsystem gives user option to open certain type of file in one or more external applications compatible with it. A quite unusual approach how the file types are distinguished was chosen for Tux Commander. It's completely extension based, similar to Windows, in contrast to Unix file managers where MIME type handling is commonly used. Since Tux Commander is primary intended for end users who want to work with their data and not with the system files, we believe this is the right solution. This however brings incompatibility to popular desktop environments but imagine that KDE and Gnome are also separated. The other reason why separate system was used is to keep the application universal and not dependent to any existing desktop environments. Also, converters and linking plugins are planned for future versions.
To understand the system, it would be better to explain it in practice: Open the "File Types Configuration" dialog from the Settings menu, there you can see a list of existing file types and buttons for adding new or removing existing ones. For each file type you need to define file extensions (for example mp3) and add them to the list or extensions. A color and icon of this filetype can be specified here to visually separate files in the directory panels. On the second page you need to define at least one action, by specifying application command to be executed. If you define more than one action, you can choose from them in file popup menu, invoked by clicking right mouse button on the file. Key shortcuts
The following key shortcuts can be used in panels:
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There are currently 12 translations available. You can find instructions for contributing new translations on the Development page. Many of the translations are currently unmantained.
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| License |
Tux Commander
Copyright (C) 2007 Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek@users.sourceforge.net>
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 of the License, 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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Copyright © 2007 Tomáš Bžatek