GNOME Commander

GNOME Commander

GCMD Main window
Developer(s)	The GNOME Commander team
Stable release	1.4.7 / May 30, 2015 (2015-05-30)^[1]
Operating system	Linux, BSD, Unix-like, Windows (via Cygwin)
Available in	40 languages
Type	File manager
License	GNU GPL
Website	gcmd.github.io

GNOME Commander is a 'two panel' graphical file manager for GNOME. It is built using the GTK+ toolkit and GnomeVFS or GVFS.

Features

GNOME MIME types
Network support through FTP, SFTP, SAMBA and WebDAV
Context menu with bound the right click of mouse
User defined context menu
Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting
Latest accessed folder history
Folder bookmarks
Plugin support
Python scripting
Fast file viewer for text and images
Meta data support for Exif, IPTC, ID3, Vorbis, FLAC, APE, PDF, OLE2 and ODF tags
Tools for advanced renaming of files, searching, quick file name search in current directory, symlinking, comparing directories.
User defined keyboard shortcuts
Integrated command line

User interface

The Gnome Commander is one of the file managers with two separate panels, based on the split-view interface of Norton Commander. This allows the simultaneous view of a source and destination directory for copying and moving files or directories. This also makes comparing directories very convenient. The number of windows on the desktop is thereby reduced. In Gnome Commander the two panels can be arranged either horizontally or vertically.

The Gnome Commander is seamlessly integrated into the Gnome desktop environment and can therefore serve as an alternative to the default file manager Nautilus which offers a so-called spatial view, where the content of each directory is displayed in a new window.

Only the keyboard is required to work with Gnome Commander, which makes working processes much faster. Using the mouse is still an option. Keyboard shortcuts and the behavior of certain mouse buttons are freely configurable.

Since Gnome Commander supports GnomeVFS, allowing access to network interfaces such as FTP, SMB, WebDAV and SSH. There is a bookmark system for folders and a built-in file viewer for text and image documents. An integrated command line enables commands directly as input to a terminal.

The integrated Archive Manager plugin supports numerous data compression file formats such as ZIP files. Furthermore, a support for metadata systems such as Exif, IPTC and ID3-Tags for audio and video files, and other documents (e.g. pdf) is integrated.^[2] This metadata can be used for example by means of an extended tool for renaming files. It is possible to define actions depending on certain file extensions and to start these actions via a pop-up menu by right-clicking on the file.

Platforms

GNOME Commander is developed for the Linux platform. Packages are available for several Linux distributions.^[3]

Notes

↑ "Latest news". Retrieved 2014-02-15.
↑ Metadata in Gnome Commander
↑ http://gcmd.github.io/download.html#distro

External links

File managers (comparison)

Unix-like	Dolphin emelFM2 gentoo GNOME Commander GNOME Files (Nautilus) Konqueror Krusader Nemo PCMan File Manager ranger ROX-Filer Thunar Xfe SpaceFM

DOS	DOS Navigator DOS Shell Norton Commander PathMinder PC Shell ViewMAX Volkov Commander XTree

OS/2 etc.	DOS Navigator Norton Commander for OS/2

Windows	Altap Salamander Directory Opus DOS Navigator Explorer++ Far Manager File Manager Norton Commander for Windows PowerDesk STDU Explorer Total Commander File Explorer Windows Commander Windows Explorer WinSCP xplorer² XTree for Windows XYplorer ZTreeWin

Mac OS	Commander One CRAX Commander Finder Path Finder Xfile

BeOS etc.	OpenTracker Tracker

Cross-platform	Dired Double Commander Graphical Environment Manager Midnight Commander MuCommander

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