Comments on: PCManFM 0.3.6 in action

By: Updates for LXDE’s lxpanel and lxsession « Motho ke motho ka botho

Updates for LXDE’s lxpanel and lxsession « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:51:27 +0000

[...] Categories: Arch Linux, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Forums Quick on the heels of the PCManFM update late last week, PCMan has updated the lxpanel and lxsession components of the LXDE desktop [...]

By: JK

JK — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:08:40 +0000

On Ubuntu, at least in Hardy, there is a package called “pcmanfm-nohal” that has a few dependecies less (mainly dbus, AFAIS).

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:25:53 +0000

Thanks for the link (looks like a gutsy-only version). Had a look at the readme file in the tarball and along with a lot of interesting info I was a bit disappointed to find the desktop icons option is not recommended at the moment for performance reasons.

Drag… that was one reason I was going to use this for my lightweight setup.
I’m an untidy person that has to have stuff right up under my nose or I forget it, and don’t know how I’d manage without the contents of my Desktop folder visible at all times…

The other options seem to be heavy, like Nautilus, or not really the desktop, just links, like Rox…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:52:43 +0000

Would version 0.3.5.999999 suffice?

http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=PCMan%20File%20Manager

Compiling shouldn’t be too hard. There would be instructions, practically, in the Arch PKGBUILD. You’ll just have to install the appropriate -dev packages.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:05:07 +0000

btw I was eagerly awaiting the stable release too, but I can’t find an Ubuntu .deb anywhere. Might have to wait a day or two. Meanwhile I could have a go at compiling from the tarball I suppose…

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:54:53 +0000

I’m not sure if pcmanfm even has a trash can – that might be one of the extras that Thunar has. On the other hand pcmanfm can do desktop icons of the contents of your ~/Desktop folder, and wallpaper without feh or anything.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:54:57 +0000

I don’t think I ever got it working either. I don’t like Trash cans though, so I generally delete things permanently.

By: smariachi

smariachi — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:44:21 +0000

on arch, Thunar doesn’t have a single XFCE dep. That doesn’t happen on Ubuntu (it evens depends on gnome-keyring!)

I never got the “trash” to work with pcmanfm. how do you do that?