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by CooDy - Dec 27th 2005 00:48:58
I am an old user of gentoo, I do not remember exactly how long ago I
installed it, but I have learned over and over again that there just isn't
a replacement for the gentoo's adaptability (distro included ;) ). I use it
for every imaginable file action - burning cds, encoding, decoding, ...
I have found that the best way to use gentoo is to combine it with bash
scriots, they add all the power of linux scripting, while gentoo just
passes parameters into scripts. This way you retain realiability and do not
loose any functionality, since there still are a few glitches with gentoo
and I wouldn't recommend it for a regular superuser usage. On the other
hand, it is awesome for a casual user and I mean awesome - you really
should try this.
The one thing that really bothers me with gentoo is the functionality of
the mouse - I have written to the author a few times about it and he
remains adamant that its just fine, well actually its ok, since gentoo is
mainly set to be used with a keyboard, but I would prefer the other way
:).
And let me just add: Thank you Emil, this is my favourite linux app :)
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Still the best file manager for me!
by Tony Austin - Dec 7th 2005 02:31:41
I love the Gentoo FM and have been using it for 3 years now. What I like
most is being able to skip around with the arrow keys opening up textfiles
and editing them AND going to a directory and pressing T to get a command
prompt - wonderful! Clone, Link, Copy and Move too - brilliant!
Please, Emil, don't ever abandon this great FM, even the latest version of
Nautilus hasn't tempted me away.
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Havn't even installed it and Im in love!
by ghostcorps - Aug 16th 2005 23:55:04
Ok, Id hate to sound to eagre.. but this looks awsome!!
I have recently moved to FreeBSD and use CTWM as my DM. So of course I
want an FM. After much searching I started with MC: sexy though it is, it
doesnt have enough functionality and konqueror is nice but far too many
bells and whistles to be efficient. Seeing this has me fairly itching to
get home.
I know it is exactly what I want [scratch] need.
Thanks
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Is not gentoo a linux Distribution
by Veerakumar - Jun 4th 2005 19:49:42
Gentoo is a linux distribution. Is this software violating copyright.
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Re: Is not gentoo a linux Distribution
by Emil Brink - Jun 5th 2005 01:42:37
> Gentoo is a linux distribution. Is this
> software violating copyright.
No, it is not a violation. First, I used the name "gentoo" before the
Gentoo Linux distribution exited; it's been the name of the application
since 1998. Second, as soon as Gentoo Linux appeared, I wrote the founder
and talked to him about it; we're cool. In the early days, there used to be
a link from the front of gentoo.org to my page, even. :)
Btw, I run Gentoo Linux myself, it's the nicest distro I've tried so far.
You can run gentoo on Gentoo and have both! :)
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Excellent Program
by Craig Block - Jan 29th 2005 14:51:04
I've been searching for a lightweight file manager to run on my Linux box
for years. I don't want the overhead involved in running KDE or Gnome and
their file managers aren't that impressive either. I've tried a ton of
them, but they've all been lacking in some way or another. Then I came
across Gentoo. This program has it all. It's light and fast and is
beautifully configurable. It does everything but make coffee. Wish I
had found it sooner.
Thanks a ton for making an excellent program freely available.
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gentoo scripts page
by martintxo - Nov 9th 2004 01:34:58
Hello:
Is there any gentoo filemanager scripts web page?. I consider that this
would be an ussefull thing to configure your gentoo whitout reinvent the
well.
Thanks for this good app, Emil.
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gentoo on Gentoo: great just got greater
by Ivan "imp" Savcic - Jun 16th 2004 16:29:03
Until couple of days ago, I used KDE in combination with Konqueror and had
my resources eaten all of the time.
Now, on XFCE4, I use gentoo and that combination is really a bliss for my
Gentoo desktop machine. Fast and lightweight. 2 thumbs up from me!
PS: it really looks and feels like DOpus... ;) Ahh, the good ol' Amiga
days...
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imp
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Red Hat RPM Install ??
by serisys - Jan 23rd 2004 21:32:57
This is similiar to tallguy999's experience.
I saw his post regarding install problem on Red Hat 9.
I'm having the exact problem, tried his apparent fix, and still have the
problem.
I was wondering if anyone (including tallguy999) ever found the actual
problem?
I'm a Linux Virgin Newbie but with much Windows experience and can't seem
to figure it out.
I downloaded the rpm into the "root /tmp", then double clicked -
quick flashing progress bar then gone!
When I tried manual rpm from the terminal "# rpm -i
gentoo-0.11.39-1.fr.i386.rpm" I got the following message;
"warning: gentoo-0.11.39-1.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
ID e42d547b"
Any help would be much appreciated. I can't wait to try this- and
afterwards vote of course!
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Its a bitch being a Newbie! Thanks to all the Vets!
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Stopping subscription
by Felix Rabe - Dec 3rd 2003 12:04:35
Nice to see you so active again - although I'm currently using xterm
exclusively for everything file-specific, I might consider it again when
preparing a photo CD of my class' trip to Oxford.
Greet Eskil from me :) - saw him @ BlenderConf 2002 - world is a town :)
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Re: Stopping subscription
by Emil Brink - Dec 3rd 2003 23:33:19
> Nice to see you so active again - although I'm currently using
xterm
> exclusively for everything file-specific, I might consider it again
> when preparing a photo CD of my classs' trip to Oxford.
>
> Greet Eskil from me :) - saw him @ BlenderConf 2002 - world is a
town :)
It does indeed sound as if it is! :) I will say hi to Eskil the next time
I see him, sure enough. Who knows, if things turn out the way I want them
to, maybe I too will be more involved with Verse again, and thus have a
reason to turn up in Blender-contexts. We'll see.
And yes, I am a bit more active with gentoo, but that has been mainly
because I've just gone two months without a job. Luckily for me, that seems
to have changed for the better. I will try to keep gentoo alive, but a
slower release schedule is probably something to expect.
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A very functional year.
by Lee Bigelow - Nov 11th 2003 16:38:41
We've been using your filemanger for over a year now,
it's about time we said thank you.
My household thanks you :)
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Debian/GNU/Linux is good for you!
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RPM Install on Redhat 9
by tallguy999 - Nov 5th 2003 04:34:37
As an ex-amiga fan I'm dying to use this! However, I downloaded the RPM
install for Redhat 9 but it doesn't seem to install properly. The initial
progress bar comes up then disappears after a split second. No errors,
nothing. I know I have GTK+ installed. Any ideas anyone?!
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Re: RPM Install on Redhat 9
by Emil Brink - Nov 7th 2003 01:16:45
> As an ex-amiga fan I'm dying to use
> this! However, I downloaded the RPM
> install for Redhat 9 but it doesn't seem
> to install properly. The initial
> progress bar comes up then disappears
> after a split second. No errors,
> nothing. I know I have GTK+ installed.
> Any ideas anyone?!
Since I don't run RH, I'm afraid I can't help you out much there. You
might want to try sending the question to the mailing list
(gentoo-misc,
hosted by SourceForge). It's not a very active list however, so that's not
a safe bet either. You could also, of course, try installing it manually
from the distribution tar.gz archive. Not the one true way for an RPM user,
but... Could be worth trying anyway. I hope you get to try it out, anyway.
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Re: RPM Install on Redhat 9
by tallguy999 - Nov 17th 2003 12:45:19
All sorted now - have absolutely no idea what was causing the problem, but
have just reinstalled RH9 with all the development options. Works like a
dream - has to be the perfect form for a file manager - great stuff!
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Best FM for any linux environment
by mesostinky - Oct 19th 2003 16:42:03
Really this thing just rocks. Seriously it should be the default file
manager for all linux distros. Why? Well in contrast to Nautilus and Konq
it does one thing really really well. Manage files. The two-paned file
manager view has been the best way to manage files for many years now. If
you need to move just a few or even better many files in a short amount of
time this is the way to go. There is NO faster way to navigate your system.
Using say Nautilus slows down the entire process and really hogs resources.
By the time you launch Nautilus or Konq and actually get your home
directory displayed you'd literally already be in the directory you needed
to be in Gentoo. I still use Nautilus for files that are just in my home
directory or if I want to browse some thumbnails, but for the task of
actually copying/moving/mass deleting Gentoo is superior in every way. Even
though this way of managing files isn't new, Gentoo is the modern
incarnation of this method and is the only way to manage your files
efficiently.
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Re: Best FM for any linux environment
by Emil Brink - Oct 26th 2003 01:35:39
> Really this thing just rocks.
You're making me smile! Thanks a lot!! :D
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Fastest both in opening and management
by Chad - Jul 30th 2003 12:22:19
It's highly functional, very fast, excellent graphics, and the ONLY
filemanager I use in GUI on my system. I look for fast programs that are
both functionable, and work well, this is on the top of the the list!
Easy to understand, highly customizable should you want to, but works
great 'out of the box' as well.
Looking forward to upcoming releases, possibly for GTK2 ;-)
Cool
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I absolutely love it.
by russkiX - Mar 27th 2003 19:54:45
I like non-bloated applications, so I run icewm, vim, etc. This is the
best file manager for Linux (*n?x) yet. Some things, though:
When copying, deleting, moving, getsize-ing, etc., large numbers of files,
gentoo takes a while, finishes the moving, then freezes X for a number of
minutes. I'm not well versed on the technical side of file managers, but
could this be avoided?
Also, it would be nice to fix some linking issues. For example, when I
copy a symlink to overwrite another one, gentoo stops copying entirely.
But overall, excellent job. What else have you written?
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Best FM I've tried for Linux, but I miss one of the features from DOpus4
by Jonas - Nov 23rd 2002 12:37:34
I used to do my filemanaging in DOpus on the Amiga, and there was one
really useful feature that I would love to see in Gentoo.
It works like this: You click on a zip/tgz/whatever file in one of the
windows and then you instantly click in the other window and it will unpack
it there. Ofcourse you could assign other functions to this, copy the
selected file for example. But it's really convenient and alot faster then
all other methods I've tried. (drag-and-drop, select and press unpack
button, right click and select unpack from a menu)
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Gentoo is excellent!
by Marco Paganini - Jul 20th 2002 18:01:20
In my old windoze days (gone are those days) I used Windows Commander and
really liked it. Gentoo is the *only* stable and fully featured FM I've
seen for linux that gets close to Windows Commander. I's quite fast and
absurdly configurable (which is excellent). :)
My only gripes are:
- Clicking on a file/directory selects it. I'd rather have another mouse
button/key to do it.
- I'm so used to typing "cd dir" to go there. Gentoo could
intercept these keystrokes and change the directory accordingly.
- A VFS for zip/tar, etc, etc including compression support (that would
really rock!)
- I cannot change the fonts! :((( The GTK theme fonts are always used
(that would be OK in most cases, but it's not when I use anti-aliased fonts
for my main theme and gentoo uses them -- sloooowness)
Other than that, it's excellent.
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Re: Gentoo is excellent!
by Emil Brink - Aug 19th 2002 15:27:39
First, thanks! I'm happy you like gentoo, and even happier you took the
time to post your ideas and opinions. Here are a few comments back:
Selection is more or less GTK+ standard, which is reasonable in my
opinion. Selecting things from a list with the left mouse button seems,
again IMO, to be more or less world standard. Having been slightly exposed
to Windows Commander recently, I kind of understand what you're saying, but
I would never even had the thought otherwise. Don't expect this to
change...
You could bind 'c' to the focus and clear the path, unlearn the 'd' and
space, and just type the path I guess... But it seems very silly to me. Of
course, I never "grew up" with file managers with integrated command lines,
and still find the entire idea very weird. Again, don't expect gentoo to
have an integrated shell any time soon.
I agree 100% about the VFS; it would really rock. What's stopping it is
mainly a) no good VFS layer known, b) no time or energy to write one
myself, and c) fear for troublesome integration, hunting down all file
system accesses in gentoo could take a while.
You can change the fonts for the panes and the textview in the GTK+ RC
file for gentoo, ~/.gentoogtkrc. See the README.gtkrc file for details.
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Re: Gentoo is excellent!
by Dmitry Telegin - Nov 12th 2005 11:17:14
> Selection is more or less GTK+ standard,
> which is reasonable in my opinion.
> Selecting things from a list with the
> left mouse button seems, again IMO, to
> be more or less world standard. Having
> been slightly exposed to Windows
> Commander recently, I kind of understand
> what you're saying, but I would never
> even had the thought otherwise. Don't
> expect this to change...
:-(((((
I want to configure it...
Selection in "FAR" and "Total Commander" very good!
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This file manager the best I`ve used
by J A W - Jun 22nd 2002 10:42:03
I recommend this for everyones desktop...
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gentoo is not only for Linux ;)
by Jim Geovedi - May 25th 2002 18:59:30
Finally, it's work fine in my OpenBSD 3.1-current. Good job, Emil. 8-)
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PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set
than to the solution set.
-- E. W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
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Re: gentoo is not only for Linux ;)
by Emil Brink - May 29th 2002 15:56:42
> Finally, it's work fine in my OpenBSD
> 3.1-current. Good job, Emil. 8-)
Well, thanks to you too, Jim, for putting together the OpenBSD port! Oh,
and if you have the time, please vote for gentoo--it needs more votes! :)
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Re: gentoo is not only for Linux ;)
by Jim Geovedi - May 29th 2002 17:48:47
>
> Well, thanks to you too, Jim, for
> putting together the OpenBSD port! Oh,
> and if you have the time, please vote
> for gentoo--it needs more votes! :)
Hehe.. don't know if i can vote twice ;)
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PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set
than to the solution set.
-- E. W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
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Other tools
by Ze - Apr 30th 2002 09:04:37
I use a Worker who seems better than gentoo.
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M. Yann Richard (Ze)
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Re: Other tools
by Emil Brink - Apr 30th 2002 09:47:18
> I use a Worker who seems better than
> gentoo.
Heh, well, good for you, then. I guess. ;^)
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Re: Other tools
by Avi Y - Oct 15th 2002 08:01:35
If only we could combine the rich feature set of worker
with the great looks and context dependatnt menus of gentoo, we could get
the perfect file manager....
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avi Y
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Restored faith
by jigma - Mar 4th 2002 01:27:59
I recently tried the ROX
[sourceforge] file manager. It is great but it lack functions I like (sort
by date modified/size and the likes), and as for nautilus or konqueror,
well I would rather use M$ Explorer (please forgive my Lord). But Gentoo,
well Gentoo has restored my faith in Linux and open-source developers. This
is an excellent app and well worth you time to learn to use it.
Keep up the good work Emil.
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"Linux is only free if your time has no value"
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Thanks Emil !!!
by Frederick Reeve - Feb 16th 2002 12:52:52
Well I too used an amiga only I used dirworks.
I Think this program is probably my most used program on linux with the
exception of freeX and E. I am really greatful to have gentoo and think
that it is under rated by most of the distros as a file manager, but I am
only one man. Its small, fast, easy to configure and powerful yet easy on
the cpu. Drag and drop is a feature I really don't think gentoo needs.
In short I would say to any one that is looking at gentoo.
If you want something small yet very functional and you don't want it to
look like windows explorer. Give it a try
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This is very good really :)
by Proteque - Aug 28th 2001 05:42:32
I used Dopus 4 on my Amiga for years. Then I used
Opus Magellan II on the miggy. After changing to
Linux I missed a descent filemanager. Dopus is to
my great happiness a very good Dopus 4 clone. It
have most of the functions that Dopus 4 have.
Would be great to see drag&drop though.
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hehe
by Proteque - Aug 28th 2001 05:44:29
I mixed some words up there :) What i ment was
that Gentoo was a great dopus4 clone :)
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Looks nice but that name....
by David Douthitt - Aug 27th 2001 15:47:11
Are you aware that the name Gentoo is already taken?
http://www.gentoo.org
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Re: Looks nice but that name....
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Aug 28th 2001 02:10:15
> Are you aware that the name Gentoo is
> already taken?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org
>
I think the file manager is much older than the distribution.
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Re: Looks nice but that name....
by Emil Brink - Aug 28th 2001 03:59:01
> Are you aware that the name Gentoo is
> already taken?
As already pointed out, gentoo the file manager is older than gentoo the
Linux distro. I even contacted the maintainer of the distro when it was
first announced, asking if I should worry about the name clash. He said
everything was cool, and for a while there even linked to "my" gentoo's
homepage from http://www.gentoo.org/.
:) That seems to have gone away, though. I have a link in the other
direction from the gentoo page at http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/,
since it might help reduce confusion sometimes.
I don't remember exactly when gentoo Linux was first announced, but gentoo
the file manager was announced under that name in September of 1998.
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gentoo
by Snugboy - Jul 23rd 2000 18:06:55
Damn this thing kicks ass. Finally a fm worth downloading. Rarely does
one see an app with so much functionallity put into it, especially an app
as important as a file manager. Forget everything else and download this
NOW!
It lays the cut straight and flys sooo sweet.
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Gentoo Rocks
by Ulf Pettersson - Jan 2nd 1999 17:51:23
Alright, I'm biased - I know Emil, the creator of gentoo.
But that doesn't matter - gentoo still rocks. If you have gtk
installed, you just must check out this filemanager. It's small, it's fast,
it is straightforward and has tons of configuration options available from
the GUI or from the (XML-based!) config-file.
And it comes with more than 100 icons for different filetypes as well
as excellent documentation...
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Re: Gentoo Rocks
by wuonm - Dec 10th 2003 09:07:44
> And it comes with more than 100 icons
> for different filetypes as well as
> excellent documentation...
I like the icons, but the documentation is far from excellent, it's
usable.
BTW, I prefer Gentoo over Worker (what a nightmare of config
windows!).
The only feature I miss in Gentoo is the possibility to include a script
for an action (shell script, perl or whatever as soon as you have the
interpreter installed). I suppose I can use one-liners, but it's only a
work-around.
I would be nice also if you can scroll the buttons panel just with your
central mouse button, allowing lots and lots of buttons :)
And finally, what about entering a mask filter (like *.pdf) in the
path-box to show just the matching files? I don't know how to do it now...
Great app!
<wuonm/>
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