Dolphin File Manager Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to Dolphin File Manager for Linux with any license

Double Commander

Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas. Features - Unicode support - Tabbed interface - Multi-rename tool - Custom columns - Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format - Internal text editor (F4) with syntax highlighting - Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Dual Pane Support Built-in SSH client Crossplatform Dual Pane Support ... File management File-sync Flat view Help on local file Integrated FTP client Lua scripting Multi-tabs Night mode/Dark Theme Optimal performance Queued Operations Search in Archives TC plug-in's support Tree view Two-panel file manager Add a feature

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Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Its a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Cygwin ... MacPorts
Console-based Support for FTP Dual Pane Support File Compression ... File management Lightweight Minimalistic Mounting drives Support for SFTP SSH Two panels Add a feature

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Files

Files (Nautilus) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.

Free Open Source Mac Linux MacPorts XQuartz
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File management Support for FTP Add a feature

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Thunar

Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant.
- shift-clicking and ctrl-clicking act like most people expect, unlike dolphin, which has some akward +/- system that I never learned, and drove me nuts. Guest • Feb 2018 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Linux Xfce MacPorts XQuartz
Auto-delete files Batch rename files File management File Renaming Add a feature

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ranger

ranger is a file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Cygwin
Command line interface Console-based File management Miller columns ... Multi Column View File Renaming Vim key mapping Add a feature

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Nemo

Nemo is the official file manager for the Linux Mint operating system running the Cinnamon desktop. It re-introduced several features removed from the file manager Nautilus, from which it originated.

Free Open Source Linux
File management Add a feature

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muCommander

muCommander is a cross-platform file manager that will run on any operating system which supports Java. It features a Norton Commander style interface to allow easy manipulation of files with many keyboard shortcuts. Pre-compiled builds are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, *BSD, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web BSD ... Java
Dual Pane Support File management Portable SSH Add a feature

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fman

Brings features from Sublime Text to the file manager niche. Features: • A user interface similar to ST, • Ctrl/Cmd+P for jumping to any directory, • Plugins based on the Python programming language

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Dual Pane Support File management File transfer Plugin API ... Plugins Add a feature

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PCMan File Manager

An extremely fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
File management Lightweight Tabbed browsing Add a feature

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trolCommander

trolCommander - fork of the free and opensource muCommander filemanager. trolCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface with tabbed navigation and rich functionality. It runs on any operating system with Java support. It supports multiple virtual systems - FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS and Bonjour.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Built-in Terminal Built-in viewer Dual Pane Support File management ... Support for FTP Java Lightweight Support for SFTP Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Add a feature

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Krusader

Advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want: extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP, advanced search module, an internal viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming and much much more.

Free Open Source Mac Linux MacPorts XQuartz
Dual Pane Support File management Support for FTP Add a feature

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JumpFm

JumpFm is a minimalistic dual panel file manager (currently released only for Windows, Mac, and Linux) that lets you navigate your file system very efficiently. Mac releases can be found at https://github.com/heywoodlh/jumpfm Windows build is not tested yet, so use at your own risk. JumpFm is an Electron based app. It is written in TypeScript. To hack the code all you need is node.js a decent editor and a sass compiler.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Dual Pane Support File management Linux Minimalistic ... Night mode/Dark Theme Windows-like Add a feature

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SpaceFM

SpaceFM is a multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager for Linux with built-in VFS, udev- or HAL-based device manager, customisable menu system, and bash integration. SpaceFM aims to provide a stable, capable file manager with significant customisation capabilities.

Free Open Source Linux
File management Multi panel Add a feature

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Pantheon Files

The simple, powerful, and sexy file manager from elementary OS. Pantheon FIles is one of the rare filemanagers that uses the "Miller columns" view.

Free Open Source Linux
File management Miller columns Tabbed interface Add a feature

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Xfe

Fast, light, and flexible file manager. Xfe only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
Dual Pane Support File management Add a feature

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Caja

Caja is a fork of Nautilus from GNOME 2 and is native to the MATE Desktop Environment. It is a file manager like the Windows Explorer (not to confuse with Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge), but for Unix/BSD and Linux. http://www.mate-desktop.org/

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Dual Pane Support File management Support for WebDAV Add a feature

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Marlin

Marlin is a new GTK3-based file manager for Linux, pretty slick and fast. Unlike most other file managers Marlin has included the so called "Miller columns" view. Features * Tabbed browsing * Multiple-views * Single-click to open (default) * Configurable toolbars and interface * Dropbox integration * Plugin framework
- Discontinued Last commit 2013-04-16. See https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~marlin-devs/marlin/marlin-0.5/files
Free Open Source Linux
Dropbox integration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File management Miller columns ... Tabbed browsing Add a feature

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Polo File Manager

Polo is a modern, light-weight file manager for Linux with support for multiple panes and tabs; support for archives, and much more. Features: - Multiple Panes - Single-pane, dual-pane (vertical or horizontal split) and quad-pane layouts. Supports multiple tabs in each pane. Each tab has an embedded terminal which can be toggled with the F4 key. - Multiple Views - List view, Icon view, Tiled view and Media view.

Freemium Open Source Linux
Built-in Terminal File management Quadruple-pane functionality Add a feature

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lf (file manager)

lf (list files) is a terminal file manager written in Go programming language. It is inspired by ranger with some missing and extra features. Some of the missing features are deliberately omitted by its developer since he/she thinks "they are better handled by external tools".

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD ... DragonFly BSD NetBSD
Console-based File management Add a feature

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Tux Commander

Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers. The main goal of this project is to create powerful and user friendly file manager for Unix operating systems.
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.6.70, released in November 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Linux Xfce
Dual Pane Support File management Support for FTP Support for SFTP Add a feature

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Vifm

Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
File management Terminal-based Vim key mapping Add a feature

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Rodent

What is Rodent? Rodent is fast, small and powerful file manager for the GNU operating system (but it also works in BSD). That's one way to look at it. Another way is to call it a graphic shell (that's probably more accurate). Rodent wastes no space on menus or function buttons (display real estate is too valuable). All functionality is available through popup menu or keyboard action. Popup menu is context sensitive. Full lpterminal is available from keyboard.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
Command line interface File management Add a feature

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Worker

Worker is a file manager for the X Window System on UN*X with low requirements (basically only the X11 libraries). The directories and files are shown in two independent panels (similar to Midnight Commander). Features: UTF8 support, tabs, fast and easy access to archives and remote sites, access ftp sites without third party tools, text viewer, file search, flexible file type system, context menu, volume manager and others.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
File management Add a feature

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GNOME Commander

GNOME Commander is a "two-pane" graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Commander aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands.

Free Open Source Linux
Dual Pane Support File management Support for FTP Add a feature

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Sunrise Commander

The Sunrise Commander is a richly featured double-pane file manager for the Emacs editor that combines the power of dired and the convenience of orthodox file managers (Midnight Commander, Far, etc).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux GNU Emacs
Dual Pane Support File management Add a feature

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