A Simple File Manager Using Dmenu DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Comments and reviews: 10
Megaluria
I think it's perfect for educational purposes, but definitely not for everyday work. You can just start up Midnight Commander or any simillar multi-panel file manager that offers much more and you get your work done much faster without CLI, which is also perfect for common users not familiar with the terminal (but having some necessary knowledge of linux file system and NortonCommander-like managers from old days).
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I think it's perfect for educational purposes, but definitely not for everyday work. You can just start up Midnight Commander or any simillar multi-panel file manager that offers much more and you get your work done much faster without CLI, which is also perfect for common users not familiar with the terminal (but having some necessary knowledge of linux file system and NortonCommander-like managers from old days).
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Steve
You kept saying trash and I thought of trash-cli . I think you've showed it before. A simple little recycling bin that exists only in the terminal . Trash a bunch of files that are in your way. OR keep , view , or delete them as you wish, just as another trash option. I want to try this dmenu script and see whats going on its not that long to look over.
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You kept saying trash and I thought of trash-cli . I think you've showed it before. A simple little recycling bin that exists only in the terminal . Trash a bunch of files that are in your way. OR keep , view , or delete them as you wish, just as another trash option. I want to try this dmenu script and see whats going on its not that long to look over.
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MtotheM
Scripting your own menus with dmenu is very trivial. and you can even use bemenu on wayland now which is pretty much the same thing so it's not a tool that will be phased out. I do almost all repetitive tasks through mine. For example mounting / dismounting usb drives. turning on/off wifi/bluetooth and similar things.
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Scripting your own menus with dmenu is very trivial. and you can even use bemenu on wayland now which is pretty much the same thing so it's not a tool that will be phased out. I do almost all repetitive tasks through mine. For example mounting / dismounting usb drives. turning on/off wifi/bluetooth and similar things.
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Andrew
Interesting project. Thanks for reviewing it, DT. I've been using vifm ever since you did a video on it. Prior to that I used Midnight Commander as my terminal file manager. And rofi is the keyboard-centric menu I use, again, thanks to you. I hope you track this project in the future. Cheers.
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Interesting project. Thanks for reviewing it, DT. I've been using vifm ever since you did a video on it. Prior to that I used Midnight Commander as my terminal file manager. And rofi is the keyboard-centric menu I use, again, thanks to you. I hope you track this project in the future. Cheers.
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Victor
00:00 Intro
00:22 dmenufm GitHub page
01:21 cloning dmenufm script
02:08 running dmenu
02:44 dmenufm Actions
04:00 Trash a file with dmenufm
05:30 Empty Trash
06:02 dmenufm Bookmarks
07:20 ToDo in next dmenufm releases
07:50 Conclusions
08:30 Thanks Patreons!
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00:00 Intro
00:22 dmenufm GitHub page
01:21 cloning dmenufm script
02:08 running dmenu
02:44 dmenufm Actions
04:00 Trash a file with dmenufm
05:30 Empty Trash
06:02 dmenufm Bookmarks
07:20 ToDo in next dmenufm releases
07:50 Conclusions
08:30 Thanks Patreons!
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Stephan
I'm having a trouble uploading files to Slack and mostly electron based apps. I don't have a major desktop environment or graphical file manager. Just using DWM. I'm wondering how could I get this done. On Firefox I saw it opens up GDK file manager. Any idea for non GTK based apps?
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I'm having a trouble uploading files to Slack and mostly electron based apps. I don't have a major desktop environment or graphical file manager. Just using DWM. I'm wondering how could I get this done. On Firefox I saw it opens up GDK file manager. Any idea for non GTK based apps?
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Mark
>wonders how hard it would be to add wayland suport through bemenu
>looks at source code
huh, looks like all the bmenu calls could be easily changed over.
>notices xclip is used once
nah changeing that one extra line over to wl-clipboard is too much work.
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>wonders how hard it would be to add wayland suport through bemenu
>looks at source code
huh, looks like all the bmenu calls could be easily changed over.
>notices xclip is used once
nah changeing that one extra line over to wl-clipboard is too much work.
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Benutza
I see your mouse cursor is misaligned in the firefox window capture. I suggest capturing the whole monitor (the one firefox is open on) and cropping it with -transform- inside obs (if you didn't already test and abandon this) . Also, happy thanksgiving!
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I see your mouse cursor is misaligned in the firefox window capture. I suggest capturing the whole monitor (the one firefox is open on) and cropping it with -transform- inside obs (if you didn't already test and abandon this) . Also, happy thanksgiving!
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MrTopHat
You should take a look at the Tox instant messaging clients. I think uTox and qTox are the best free/libre/open source alternatives to Discord that people need to know about. There is a command-line client called Toxic.
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You should take a look at the Tox instant messaging clients. I think uTox and qTox are the best free/libre/open source alternatives to Discord that people need to know about. There is a command-line client called Toxic.
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Ivor
What's the point? The existing tools are not a problem. Besides, if you need something a bit more elaborate why don't you just do it in vim? Not vimfm, just within vim.
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What's the point? The existing tools are not a problem. Besides, if you need something a bit more elaborate why don't you just do it in vim? Not vimfm, just within vim.
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