Gnome Commander

A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment

Information

Gnome Commander is a "two-pane" graphical file manager for the Linux desktop using GNOME libraries. It 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.

Latest news

• 30 Jul 2024 » New Release: v1.18.1
• 21 Jul 2024 » New Release: v1.18.0
• 16 May 2024 » New Release: v1.16.2
• 08 Jul 2023 » New Release: v1.16.1
• 22 Jan 2023 » New Release: v1.16.0
• 18 Jun 2022 » New Release: v1.14.3
• 27 Mar 2022 » New Release: v1.14.2
• 08 Mar 2022 » Gnome Commander back in Debian

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About GCMD

Gnome Commander is built on the GTK-toolkit and GIO.

Features:

• Support for tabs
• One instance mode
• User defined LS_COLORS colours
• Possibility to select/deselect files only
• GTK-3 GUI with standard mouse interactions.
• Gnome mime types
• Network access through GIO.
• SAMBA (if GIO supports it).
• Mouse context menu that easily can be extended by entries calling any kind of external application like viewers, editors or custom scripts to work on selected files or directories.
• Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting ("no-mount" option for just quick access to folders or otherwise automounted devices).
• Latest accessed folder history.
• Folder bookmarks.
• Plugin support under development.
• Fast internal file viewer for text, images and image meta data (Exif and IPTC).
• Quick file name search in current dir
• Symlinking, comparing directories.
• A tool for advanced renaming of files supporting various types of meta-data.
• Integrated command line.

Bugs

You can report or view Gnome Commander bugs at gitlab.gnome.org.

All users of Gnome Commander are very welcome to help us find, hunt down and kill bugs. :)

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists for Gnome Commander which are hosted and controlled by the Free Software Foundation:

1. gcmd-users: for topics about using GCMD
2. gcmd-devel: for topics about the development of GCMD

All posts from non-members are beeing held for approval due to spam reasons. Keep in mind that both lists are public and your email address can be seen by anyone!

Authors

Since 2013: Uwe Scholz (maintainer of source code and home page).

• u.scholz83 at gmx.de (GPG-Key Fingerprint)

Former managers and developers were

• Piotr Eljasiak († 2012), Project manager and main developer.
• Assaf Gordon, Developer (The internal viewer).

A special "Thank you" is addressed to Marcus Bjurman who was the original creator and former manager/developer. Marcus initiaded this project publicly in 2001 and developed it up to version 1.1.6 in 2004. Without him there would not have been any Gnome Commander.

Donations

Gnome Commander is open source software and it's free. If you really want to donate something then let me point you to one of the following organizations:

• www.fsf.org
• www.linuxfoundation.org
• www.gnome.org/friends

... or any other of these kind.

And remember to celebrate the "I love free software day" on February, 14th.

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