File manager for Xfce

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Wed Feb 15 19:08:51 UTC 2012


On 02/15/12 19:54, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2012 9:58 AM, "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo at intersonic.se
> <mailto:peo at intersonic.se>> wrote:
>>
>> A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not
>> really my way of doing it.
>>
>> One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file
>> manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run
>> under Xfce?
>>
>> In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and
>> looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability?
>>
>> I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding
>> a lot of KDE3 as well.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome, thanks!
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> 
> hi,
> 
> I like xfce4, compact and fast on my netbook. I haven't had issues on
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. Thunar is good, have not tried using smb:// etc
> but I will see what happens and let you know. The WebKit based browser
> in the project is pretty good too. If you are running FreeBSD on a
> desktop you might want more apps and features that come with KDE or Gnome.
> 
> Check out the xfce.org <http://xfce.org> site to see what you get ;-)
> 
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA
> 

Hmmm, looking at the Xfce website it looks as perhaps problem solved:

"Thunar now has optional support for GVFS which will allow you to browse
remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers..."

If this works all is fine.


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