xfe Reviews

The best file manager. I have been using it for years now. Thanks again for continuing the development.

thanks for xfe

Xfe is now my go-to file manager on all my Linux installs. For such a capable file manager, it is insanely light! The icing on the cake is the similarly light extra apps -- xfw, xfa, xfi (others?)!

Works really nicely for me (using on Slackware Linux). Big thanks to the developer and contributors :)

lacking some serious features

After five months of using xfe I decided to revert to Thunar because, in descending order of importance • File association (open with) uses Windows style .ext rather than MIME type • Bookmarks: inconvenient to use being ordered by creation date and displayed with full paths. The workaround of using directory 0_shortcuts with symlinks resulted in paths including 0_shortcuts whereas Thunar's Places results in absolute paths • Custom shell scripts are less usable than Thunar's custom actions requiring select > menu > select whereas Thunar's requires select > menu. A 29 Nov 2024 feature request to be able to assign a key binding to run a script had not been acknowledged by the developer • Open terminal here: selecting a folder and pressing Ctrl+t started the terminal with the cwd being the folder's parent, not the folder. Less intuitive than Thunar's custom action which starts the terminal with that folder as cwd. • New file: does not work with templates • Toggle show hidden: no menus item found. Only way found was Ctrl+F5 for directories and Ctrl+F6 for files (nothing for both!) but those hotkeys were intercepted by Xfce to switch workspaces so would have to be customised • No key binding found to delete without sending to trash • Default file manager for apps: did not find a way to make Chromium, Firefox or LibreOffice use xfe • Help is not searchable

This file manager does all the regular things that you expect, but there was a lot of thought in adding little extras that really make it a pleasure to use.

excellent software and my fovorite on linux, light and fast and usefull features packed, remind me of disk master or dopus on my Amigas :) BTW there is no proper documentation for it ? even the official website 'documentation' is way too short to be really usefull :( the 'man' entry too is too light... at least there should be an all fonctions/options summary explaining a little what will do what ;)

Finally found a graphical file manager that is simplistic, fast and WM/DE agnostic. I have packaged this software into GNU Guix.

1) Small and lighting fast. Bloat? Let it to dolphin or nautilus. 2) Simple and complete interface. You can have an easy general view of your files and desired properties. 3) Very well integrated terminal and scripting features. The search is awesome and the best I know. 4) Good customization level and easily made by UI or editing plaintext (xferc) 5) Hints or text for all keybinds! I hate when I have to search whats the keybind of a specific feature, xfe simply put the keybind right there. 6) Rock stable. Never had one freeze, as opposing to dolphin and thunar that is common place... 7) It's the best file manager I found (tried gentoo fm, nautilus, thunar, pcman fm, dolphin, midnight commander and konqueror).

1) No dependencies other than X and fox (does not need GTK, Qt, gvfs, or other bloatware). This seems almost miraculous. 2) Easy on the eyes: Uncluttered, simple, and beautiful. 3) It has its own built-in archiver, image viewer, text editor, thumbnailer, and icon themes. 4) All configuration is in plaintext, in a single file: ~/.config/xfe/xferc 5) You can put shell scripts in ~/.config/xfe/scripts to add custom right-click menu commands 6) Cross-platform--integrates well with many UNIX-like OS's and is WM/DE agnostic. 7) No hardwired keyboard shortcuts--all key bindings are easily customizable via GUI or by editing xferc. Conclusion: From the perspective of the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing well, Xfe is perfect.

Bit awkward as there is no way to directly mount usb devices.

For a file manager whose development rests on one person, as a project which isn't strongly affiliated with any window manager or any desktop environment, this file manager is a gold standard. The computing world is becoming very mature, and simpler file managers might not cut it for the tasks you might wish to accomplish. Did you want to search for a certain file name by looking through all the files on a removable drive? You know the scenario: "I know I put it on this flash drive!", but you have tens of thousand of files on that flash device? XFE can do that (Thunar as of v1.6.3 cannot). Do you want side by side directory trees so that you can click or multi click then drag and drop files where you want them? XFE does that! Take a step up, give this humble file manager a shot!

Where I can take initial a code?

Xfe rocks running on "Unbuntu on Windows" + XMing.

If Microsoft's developers did something right with Windows, it's the GUI (pre Win8). Neither is it a bad thing nor a shame to adopt some of these aspects / features - Microsoft obviously has very skilled developers. As much as I like Linux, most available file managers seem to try to be unique, different, or the opposite to Windows Explorer. Let go the hate and do the right thing. Xfe is so far the most comfortable file manager I have seen / used on Linux.

all features I need, unlike tux commander where I cannot configure shortcuts, select multiuple files... rich featured though the design=UI seems a but "back in the times" like 15-20 yrs ago, but the UX is quite good but I'm missing a panel for file options like in krusader a bit - but that's maybe only my personal taste cause I'm accustomed to that a bit

If this has editable context menus with "appearance conditions" a la Thunar, instead of a scripts folder a la Nautilus, it would be perfect. I wish the site had a formal feature request page. So far, unlike Thunar, it hasn't hung on me once. The feature of being able to color alternate lines in the details view differently makes this a lot easier to use without the oops-wrong-file syndrome. How hard would it be to add Thunar-style custom actions, and what language would I need to learn to attempt it?

This is great, thank you! Yes, I admit it, I like Windows Explorer, esp. the relatively intuitive keyboard traversal. Nemo, at least, doesn't really give me that. I do see that Xfe hasn't been updated in over a year now. Is this still being maintained? I would like to see an option, like in Windows Explorer, to remember the last view settings for an individual folder, while maintaining the default setting. Am I missing this? Update: I just found the option to enable Shift-Delete for permanent file/dir deletion. All good there, thanks.

Excellent file manager.

Works really well.

At the sourceforge you can find the only distro with XFE as default file manager. The name of the distro is Debox. I make some tweaks at xfe and maybe the most important is the dificulty to create themes (the names of the icon files are diferent from gnome and kde). I hope that this will be fixed at the future. Gio

I've been using xfe since 2006 when I switched my desktops to Linux. Never found anything better (actually, I didn't search, there's no need to do so). Merci, Roland.

Xfe is excellent! Thanks.

One of the best file managers I have ever used. Head and shoulders above Nautilus. It's blazingly fast and versatile.