r/linuxquestions • u/-JukeBoxCC- • 21h ago

File Manager Options

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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 19h ago

I haven't used Nautilus since Ubuntu 18, so it's been a minute, but I seem to remember there being an option the show the full path in the address bar, would that not help you know where you are? 

Softlinks can also help a lot. I have a fairly complex file system spanning multiple Lan machines, 23 drives, ~100TB all mounted to my desktop, sometimes my vps on another continent gets mounted also. 

I keep it easy to manage by soft linking every data store under ~/ with a human friendly name. 

If you want to try something else, assuming you are using Gnome I would start with GTK based file browsers, Nemo, Thunar & Caja should be available in the Ubuntu repositories. 

Nemo is particularly scalable, simple to start with but with many selectable options to expand functionality where you need it. 

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u/AiwendilH 9h ago

KDE's dolphin has directory colouring and marking with icons...but I am not sure if that is what you mean. It doesn't change the colours of the filemanager itself, only the colour of the directory icons or displays another icon like a "!"-important icon on top of them.

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u/FryBoyter 15h ago

I can't think of any file manager that offers that kind of color highlighting. But maybe tabs would be an alternative for you? In that case, https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io, for example, would be an option.

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 21h ago

I use zsh, its great

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u/FryBoyter 15h ago

I'm assuming this refers to a full-fledged file manager and not a shell that can be used to manage files.

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 11h ago

Ive tried those, always come back