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rox-filer-2.11p5

GTK+-2 file manager with desktop features

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Description

ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the X Window System. You can use it as a small and fast filer within your current desktop. Or get it to manage your pinboard, panels and applications... Features: - Fast scanning of directories (in the background) - Uncluttered display (popup menus are used throughout) - Background file operations (copy, move, link, delete, permissions, find) - Powerful expression-based find feature with on-line quick reference - Mounts and unmounts filesystems (just Shift-Click on the mount point) - Supports the XDND protocol, which provides for drag-and-drop file loading, and the new XDS extension which allows drag-and-drop saving - VFS support allows browsing around inside zip files (and other types of archive) - Fully configurable from the Options dialog box - User-defined key bindings for all menu entries - A pop-up minibuffer allows navigating the filesystem using shell-style tab completion - The minibuffer can also be used for quickly entering shell commands - Full printable manual provided (PostScript format)

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Ports path
x11/rox-filer
Package architecture
amd64
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The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11
Available flavors
None listed

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