From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 14:51:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B2316A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:51:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37DF143D55 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:51:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from metaridley@mchsi.com) Received: from kaworu.dave.cedar-falls.ia.us (12-219-24-19.client.mchsi.com[12.219.24.19]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with SMTP id <20050324145108m9100pv9gje>; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:51:08 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:49:50 -0600 From: Dave Vollenweider To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050324084950.65e82cb8.metaridley@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0-gtk2-20041224 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i386--netbsdelf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Filemanager Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:51:09 -0000 I highly recommend X Northern Captain (http://xnc.dubna.su/), especially if you like using the Midnight Commander at the console. It can be controlled using both the keyboard and the mouse, supports drag-and-drop, allows you to bookmark a directory for easy access later, and is highly configurable. It also comes with its own image and text file viewer, yet is pretty fast. The only problem is that on FreeBSD they haven't updated the port to version 5.0.4, which contains an important feature: the ability to create links. You can still do that using the shell in XNC, but it's still nice to be able to do it within the file manager itself. If you can deal with that, though, then I think you'll like XNC. - Dave V. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:09:29 -0500 wrote: > Hello, > I am a FreeBSD and UNIX Newbie. I am currently running > FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on an old pentium II celeron. The machine > can't really handle any of the really big windows > managers/desktop environments, but it runs Blackbox very well. > Can anyone out there recommend a file manager that will work > well with blackbox on my old system? > > Thanks, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"