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PCManFM is "an extremly fast, lightweight, yet feature-rich file manager with tabbed browsing". Source: PCManFM on sourceforge. PCManFM is the default file manager of the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment).

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Installation

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# pacman -S pcmanfm


Mounting with gvfs

If you prefer to use the Gnome Virtual FileSystem, the procedure is the same as before but requires additional packages:

  • gvfs (and dependencies);


Tips & troubleshooting

NTFS Read/Write Support

Install ntfs-3g (See NTFS-3G):

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# pacman -S ntfs-3g


No "Previous/Next Folder" functionality with mouse buttons

A method to fix this is with Xbindkeys:

Install xbindkeys:

Root terminal 48px.png
# pacman -S xbindkeys

Edit ~/.xbindkeysrc to contain the following:

# Sample .xbindkeysrc for a G9x mouse.
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text '\[Alt_L]\[Left]'"
 b:8
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text '\[Alt_L]\[Right]'"
 b:9

Actual button codes can be obtained with xev[1].

Add

xbindkeys &

to your ~/.xinitrc to execute xbindkeys on log-in.

PCManFM-Mod

PCManFM-Mod adds user-definable commands, other features, and bugfixes to the legacy version of the PCManFM file manager v0.5.2. This version builds and installs as "pcmanfm-mod" and will run independently of other versions of PCManFM you have installed on your system. This legacy version is still desired by some due to more stability than the newer 0.9.x rewrite in progress, less Gnome dependencies, and the use of HAL rather than gnome-vfs. PCManFM-Mod is available in the repo:

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# pacman-g2 -S pcmanfm-mod
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