2-Pane File Managers

[Pleng]

Back in the Amiga days, when screen resolutions were limited, and tv screens were fuzzy, file managers which listed the contents of 2 directories in panels on the screen, one on the right and one on the left. In between the panels, or above them, would be a list of actions (you know, the usual: copy, move, mkdir etc...).

Do such applications exist for Linux? With the limited screen space on Pandora I think they'd be really useful tools!

 

[SomeGuy99]

I'm using Midnight commander. Very nice to use with just the buttons.

 

[Caine]

These are known as orthodox file managers. There are quite a few of them around for linux. Just google on the term.

Some examples include Krusader (KDE), Gnome commander, Midnight commander and Gentoo (not the distro).

 

[mali]

http://emelfm2.net/

 

[Pleng]

I'm using Midnight commander. Very nice to use with just the buttons.

looks great. How did you get it on the Pandora?

 

[TrashyMG]

I'm using Midnight commander. Very nice to use with just the buttons.

looks great. How did you get it on the Pandora?

ths works on the beagleboard.. should work?

opkg update (only needed if you haven't ran this recently)

then..

opkg install mc

command to run it is just mc in a terminal

 

[SomeGuy99]

I'm using Midnight commander. Very nice to use with just the buttons.

looks great. How did you get it on the Pandora?

From the Angstrom repos. Do you want a full explanation? I can write one for you.

Quick version:

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/feed/armv7a/base/mc_4.6.2-r4.5_armv7a.ipk

Download that.

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/feed/armv7a/base/ncurses-terminfo_5.4-r20.5_armv7a.ipk

And that.

From the terminal, in the same folder type 'sudo opkg install PACKAGENAME' use tab to autocomplete silly long names (type the first five letters or so).

Install the ncurses one first.

From the terminal type 'mc' after installation. Win!

 

[Spirit]

Be aware that F10 is not working for quitting. You can press Fn, Esc, 0 though (after eachother).

 

[SomeGuy99]

Be aware that F10 is not working for quitting. You can press Fn, Esc, 0 though (after eachother).

edit>preferences>shortcuts>'disable menu shortcut keys'

B)

Some nice terminal shortcuts to add:

left-shoulder, A+B to switch tabs

right-shoulder T to open a new terminal

right-shouler Q to close

 

[Pleng]

hmm it's tempting to give it a go but I've kind of been put off opkg since my recent disaster. I've vowed to only use software that's available in PNDs. If one gets packaged up then great. If not I'll do without

 

[fusion_power]

I really could need something like this for the Pandora (when I have a Pandora). Onto my PC, I can't live without "Total Commander".

hmm it's tempting to give it a go but I've kind of been put off opkg since my recent disaster. I've vowed to only use software that's available in PNDs. If one gets packaged up then great. If not I'll do without

I've also read somewhere here, that opkg (whatever this is) is evil in combination with Pandora. I guess it came frm a dev and I guess I can trust devs.

 

[SomeGuy99]

hmm it's tempting to give it a go but I've kind of been put off opkg since my recent disaster. I've vowed to only use software that's available in PNDs. If one gets packaged up then great. If not I'll do without

What problems did you have?

MC was the first ipkg I ever installed, and it went great!

I think it's pretty tiny too (we're talking kilobytes rather than megabytes).

I'm not trying to change your opinion or anything here, but I can't stress strongly enough how easy and trouble free it was (for me).

 

[Pleng]

What problems did you have?

take a look at the 'removing gnome-games' thread in I Need Help! for my opkg story!

 

[SomeGuy99]

What problems did you have?

take a look at the 'removing gnome-games' thread in I Need Help! for my opkg story!

Weird. Well I can tell you I removed firefox with opkg and it went fine with no error messages.

MC is really small anyway. It's about 1mb. The advantage of having it on the firmware is you can call it up from any terminal window with no worries. I made a script to find and launch a pnd based on the filename - you could use that... but no doubt any MC PND would launch it's own terminal window.