Thunar crashes a lot

Does anyone use thunar to tidy a folder of files?

I find that it crashes incredibly often, it's basically a terrible piece of shitware.

file managers are shit, just use the basic tools (they always work). cd, ls, rm, mv, cp, .....

>>2
if I have a folder of memes I need to sort into pepes and wojacks, trying to do this via unix tools is impossible - if i happened to be able to see the images then I guess i could type out each file name instead of dragging them into the folders but it's still about 10000 times slower and harder than a graphical file manager.

>>3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/imgsorter/

>>3
Use PCManFM. It's much lighter, doesn't depend on gvfs and rarely crashes.

>>5
SpaceFM is better

midnight commander

>>5-7
dired and Sunrise Commander would be right up your alley

thanks so much trying all of these out one by one.

tuxcmd doesn't seem to have thumbnails so fuck that.
dired, that's inside emacs? no thumbnails so sadly I can't use it.
spacefm, trying this out for the next few days.

>>9
spacefm wants root to save options which is absolutely bizarre, i didn't give it that.

dubs

>>10
https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/spacefm-how-and-why/
See comment #12 and the asnwers

5. Why does it ask me all the time to enter my root password when configuring it?

But keep in mind that's from 2012, a lot changed.
You should ask ignorantguru yourself on the details.

I still like good ol' xv.

Thunar started freezing my entire computer when transferring files to my computer. I've transitioned back to cp and haven't been happier!

>>9

dired, that's inside emacs? no thumbnails so sadly I can't use it.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Image_002dDired.html

I've never used this but I found a screenshot:
https://qiita-image-store.s3.amazonaws.com/0/8920/0605755d-4b05-fb68-a92c-383df72e441c.png

>>14

to my computer

Er, to my external hard drive.

>>14
Doesn't cp do one file at a time? That would make it unbearably slow. At least use rsync.

And Dired does have thumbnails.

I use explorer.exe. It rarely crashes.

>>16

That would make it unbearably slow.

Why do I care? I'm not going to sit there doing nothing while it's working.

>>2
Banned for propaganda of cp.

sooo spacefm is really pretty shitty

it looks tacky and badly made.. it just feels bad to use, it wants root to set perms(wtf?), and it can't handle encrypted volumes (I have to mount them in thunar then go back to spacefm).

I guess i'll keep using it for now since tuxcmd didn't have thumbnails. and at least it doesn't crash which is why I had to stop using thunar.

Any others i should try out?

>>20
pcmanfm

oh and it doesn't support emblems which are incredibly useful

>>20
midnight commander

>>20
Recycle Bin

omg a switch tab keyboard shortcut !
*Bashes a few more keys

some weird flickering in spacefm after i click up, and it thinks I want to do something when I drag a file to the same folder it was already in (like are you sure you want to replace this?). I guess they didn't test it much..

ok! pcmanfm and midnightcommander next. Thank you

pcmanfm was looking really nice but it crashed when I tried to delete a file inside my mounted chroot. thunar gives an error dialog. I think this is a real bug.

>>27
Have you patched it yet?

>>28
im not going to fix this bug

also ranger

>>29
Why are you even here?

>>31
fix it yourself you fucking shitstain

>>32
I don't even use it.

pcmanfm is my main filemanager now. I really like it.

I'm trying to switch from pcmanfm to spacefm because it's more flexible and it lets me set shortcuts for everything.

Yeah, spacefm is better.

>>10
is why im not using spacefm. shills.

>>10,35
Anytime you change your terminal or root editor in Preferences|Advanced, it will try to save these settings as root to /etc/spacefm. This is optional but recommended (you can just cancel the password prompt if you don’t want to.) However, without being saved as root, those settings are vulnerable, and can create a root exploit. For example, if you save your root editor as ‘nano’, and skip the root password, then it will be saved to your session file in your home directory, with normal user permissions. This means someone or something could tamper with that file, changing the editor to ‘trojan ; nano’. When you edit as root, you will think you’re just running nano as root, but you’ll also be running the trojan as root, which can do anything. So that mechanism helps protect your system.

Personally, if I’m doing much as root I think its more secure to just run spacefm as root – that way all preferences and processes are root owned. This is about equivalent to running Synaptic as root (gtk) except spacefm doesn’t access the network. Of course everyone has their own preferences regarding root, and keep in mind that spacefm is still in testing.

>>38
spacefm is clearly a virus [security disaster waiting to happen]

pcmanfm was looking really nice but it crashed when I tried to delete a file inside my mounted chroot. thunar gives an error dialog. I think this is a real bug.

Probably not a bug in the file manager, but something else is broken if two or more file managers choke on the same thing. What does rm do?

>>38,39
I've been de-facto root on all the OSs I use, and I haven't had a single problem. I own my machine, I'm the only one using it so why should I bother with the needless self-bondage? Maybe if you're a clueless idiot that needs to be "protected" from every-fucking-thing...