PCMan-Install the fastest File Manager in Ubuntu Linux
This post was written by admin on October 22, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
PCMan is an extremely fast, lightweight, yet feature-rich file manager with tabbed browsing.The default file manager for the lightweight desktop environment, LXDE.It’s named PCManFM after its author’s nickname on the internet, PCMan.
Features:
- Extremly fast and lightweight
- Can be started in one second on normal machine
- Tabbed browsing (Similiar to Firefox)
- Built-in volume management (mount/umount/eject through HAL)
- Built-in file searching utility (GUI frontend for the UNIX find + grep command)
- Drag & Drop support
- Files can be dragged among tabs
- Load large directories in reasonable time
- File association support (Default application)
- Thumbnail for image files
- Bookmarks support
- Handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly
- Provides icon view, compact view, and detailed list view
- Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)
- Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2
Install PCMan
You can download and install from its homepage ,or use this command in terminal(Applications/Accessories/Terminal):
sudo apt-get install pcmanfm
Launch PCman from Applications/System Tools/PCMan File Manager,right click on it and add to panel.

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