I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
laugh and just tell me what I should use.

I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 

What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
nicely put together for power users and casual users. 

The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
..AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
kids and preferably use a large font. 

Thanks

i

Ignoramus25047 wrote:
> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
> 
> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
> 
> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
> 
> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
> kids and preferably use a large font. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> i
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071400626RVGNKE

On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
>> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
>> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
>> 
>> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
>> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
>> 
>> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
>> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
>> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
>> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
>> 
>> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
>> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
>> kids and preferably use a large font. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> i
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071400626RVGNKE

thanks. I found Gnome Commander, which seems to be good enough.

i

Ignoramus25047 wrote:
> On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>>> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
>>> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
>>> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
>>>
>>> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
>>> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
>>>
>>> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
>>> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
>>> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
>>> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
>>>
>>> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
>>> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
>>> kids and preferably use a large font. 
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> i
>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071400626RVGNKE
> 
> thanks. I found Gnome Commander, which seems to be good enough.
> 
> i
Krusader comes out top in a review I read. I usually avoid anything 'K' 
but this only has one dependency (doesn't need half of KDE like 
Konqueror). Try it: it's in the repositories and is only two packages. I 
like it!

On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>> On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
>>> Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>>>> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
>>>> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
>>>> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
>>>>
>>>> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
>>>> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
>>>>
>>>> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
>>>> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
>>>> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
>>>> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
>>>>
>>>> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
>>>> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
>>>> kids and preferably use a large font. 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> i
>>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071400626RVGNKE
>> 
>> thanks. I found Gnome Commander, which seems to be good enough.
>> 
>> i
> Krusader comes out top in a review I read. I usually avoid anything 'K' 
> but this only has one dependency (doesn't need half of KDE like 
> Konqueror). Try it: it's in the repositories and is only two packages. I 
> like it!

I just tried it. I think that indeed, Krusader is more powerful. The
only thing that I would like to make work in it, is smb: prefix. Any
idea what I should install?

i

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:46:38 -0500, Ignoramus25047 wrote:

> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
> 
> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
> 
> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
> 
> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
> kids and preferably use a large font. 

The default (excellent) file browser in Gnome is Nautilus, and should work
perfectly for this.



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On 2008-04-02, Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:46:38 -0500, Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>
>> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
>> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
>> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
>> 
>> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
>> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
>> 
>> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
>> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
>> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
>> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
>> 
>> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
>> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
>> kids and preferably use a large font. 
>
> The default (excellent) file browser in Gnome is Nautilus, and should work
> perfectly for this.
>
>
>

I think that it is way inferior to both Gnome Commander and Krusader.

i

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:40:03 -0500, Ignoramus25047 wrote:

>> The default (excellent) file browser in Gnome is Nautilus, and should work
>> perfectly for this.
 
> I think that it is way inferior to both Gnome Commander and Krusader.

Well, all that can be said to that is that you've picked a perfectly
appropriate posting nickname.  Have fun.


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Dan C wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:40:03 -0500, Ignoramus25047 wrote:
> 
>>> The default (excellent) file browser in Gnome is Nautilus, and should work
>>> perfectly for this.
>  
>> I think that it is way inferior to both Gnome Commander and Krusader.
> 
> Well, all that can be said to that is that you've picked a perfectly
> appropriate posting nickname.  Have fun.
> 
> 
He's not alone. The review I referred to said Nautilus was getting 
better but still well below par.

On 2008-04-02, Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:40:03 -0500, Ignoramus25047 wrote:
>
>>> The default (excellent) file browser in Gnome is Nautilus, and should work
>>> perfectly for this.
>  
>> I think that it is way inferior to both Gnome Commander and Krusader.
>
> Well, all that can be said to that is that you've picked a perfectly
> appropriate posting nickname.  Have fun.
>

Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
mentioned. 

i

In article <A_ednS-5naRHUW7anZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Ignoramus25047  <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> wrote:
> On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> > Ignoramus25047 wrote:
> >> On 2008-04-02, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> >>> Ignoramus25047 wrote:
> >>>> I am a command line guy and therefore I am not up to date on latest
> >>>> GUI tools. So if what I am asking for is most basic, please don't
> >>>> laugh and just tell me what I should use.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a computer hooked up to plasma TV. The keyboard is a RF keyboard
> >>>> with trackball, and using mouse is cumbersome. 
> >>>>
> >>>> What I am looking for, is a powerful file GUI browser of files, that
> >>>> would display thumbnails and previews, have very good keyboard
> >>>> shortcuts (think Norton commander from DOS), just a piece that is very
> >>>> nicely put together for power users and casual users. 
> >>>>
> >>>> The most typical use of it would be to browse NFS directories with my
> >>>> .AVI movies and invoke mplayer to play them. This should be usable by
> >>>> kids and preferably use a large font. 
> >>>>
> >>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071400626RVGNKE
> >> 
> >> thanks. I found Gnome Commander, which seems to be good enough.
> >> 
> > Krusader comes out top in a review I read. I usually avoid anything 'K' 
> > but this only has one dependency (doesn't need half of KDE like 
> > Konqueror). Try it: it's in the repositories and is only two packages. I 
> > like it!
> 
> I just tried it. I think that indeed, Krusader is more powerful. The
> only thing that I would like to make work in it, is smb: prefix. Any
> idea what I should install?

You could set up a hierarchy which would automount your shares, then
browse them as local directories.

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Ignoramus25047  <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> wrote:
> I just tried it. I think that indeed, Krusader is more powerful. The
> only thing that I would like to make work in it, is smb: prefix. Any
> idea what I should install?

Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> suggested:
> You could set up a hierarchy which would automount your shares, then
> browse them as local directories.

The autofs stuff is really good for this, as it mounts (and
unmounts) remote filesystems on demand. The way I use this is to edit
/etc/auto.master to put the SMB shares (NFS filesystems, etc.) under
/var/autofs/, and then symlink the required target directories into
(say) /mnt/:

    cd /mnt && ln -s ../var/autofs/smb/remote.machine.name/target .

Whenever you browse to /mnt the remote shares will get mounted for
you automatically. 60 seconds after you go away, they'll get unmounted
again. You might want to extend the timeout in /etc/auto.master to 5
minutes (300 seconds) to reduce the number of mount & umount operations.

Chris

On 2008-04-03, Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> wrote:
> Ignoramus25047  <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> wrote:
>> I just tried it. I think that indeed, Krusader is more powerful. The
>> only thing that I would like to make work in it, is smb: prefix. Any
>> idea what I should install?
>
> Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> suggested:
>> You could set up a hierarchy which would automount your shares, then
>> browse them as local directories.
>
> The autofs stuff is really good for this, as it mounts (and
> unmounts) remote filesystems on demand. The way I use this is to edit
> /etc/auto.master to put the SMB shares (NFS filesystems, etc.) under
> /var/autofs/, and then symlink the required target directories into
> (say) /mnt/:
>
>     cd /mnt && ln -s ../var/autofs/smb/remote.machine.name/target .
>
> Whenever you browse to /mnt the remote shares will get mounted for
> you automatically. 60 seconds after you go away, they'll get unmounted
> again. You might want to extend the timeout in /etc/auto.master to 5
> minutes (300 seconds) to reduce the number of mount & umount operations.

Looks interesting. At home I am using NFS (samba is only for the
spouse's windows laptop), but in other places it looks promising. 

i

Ignoramus25047 <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> burped up warm pablum in news:qOOdnWS7KI4Hfm7anZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@giganews.com:

> Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
> supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
> you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
> mentioned. 

There is also something called Midnight Commander, mc.   This seems to be a version of nc that works in an xterm..


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On 2008-04-06, Tris Orendorff <triso@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Ignoramus25047 <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> burped up warm pablum in news:qOOdnWS7KI4Hfm7anZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@giganews.com:
>
>> Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
>> supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
>> you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
>> mentioned. 
>
> There is also something called Midnight Commander, mc.  This seems
> to be a version of nc that works in an xterm..
>
>

I tried it, it is no good under X.

Both Krusader and gnome-commander work very well for me, Krusader is
slightly better so far. I set them up with large fonts, to be easy to
use from a RF wireless keyboard with a big screen TV. Krusader is
basically ideal for it.

i 

Ignoramus14041 wrote:
> On 2008-04-06, Tris Orendorff <triso@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> Ignoramus25047 <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> burped up warm pablum in news:qOOdnWS7KI4Hfm7anZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@giganews.com:
>>
>>> Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
>>> supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
>>> you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
>>> mentioned. 
>> There is also something called Midnight Commander, mc.  This seems
>> to be a version of nc that works in an xterm..
>>
>>
> 
> I tried it, it is no good under X.
> 
> Both Krusader and gnome-commander work very well for me, Krusader is
> slightly better so far. I set them up with large fonts, to be easy to
> use from a RF wireless keyboard with a big screen TV. Krusader is
> basically ideal for it.
> 
> i 

Try Thunar, it is kind of like Midnight Commander, but a works in X.

   Z.K.

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:39:00 -0600, Ignoramus14041
<ignoramus14041@NOSPAM.14041.invalid> wrote:

>On 2008-04-06, Tris Orendorff <triso@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> Ignoramus25047 <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> burped up warm pablum in news:qOOdnWS7KI4Hfm7anZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@giganews.com:
>>
>>> Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
>>> supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
>>> you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
>>> mentioned. 
>>
>> There is also something called Midnight Commander, mc.  This seems
>> to be a version of nc that works in an xterm..
>>
>>
>
>I tried it, it is no good under X.
>
>Both Krusader and gnome-commander work very well for me, Krusader is
>slightly better so far. I set them up with large fonts, to be easy to
>use from a RF wireless keyboard with a big screen TV. Krusader is
>basically ideal for it.
>
>i 

Out of curiosity, what is the keyboard/trackball combo you are using and what is
its effective range?  Would you recommend one for others (ie. are you happy with
it)?

Miguel

On 2008-04-25, Miguel <noone@home.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:39:00 -0600, Ignoramus14041
><ignoramus14041@NOSPAM.14041.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2008-04-06, Tris Orendorff <triso@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>> Ignoramus25047 <ignoramus25047@NOSPAM.25047.invalid> burped up warm pablum in news:qOOdnWS7KI4Hfm7anZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@giganews.com:
>>>
>>>> Well, you probably never worked with Norton Commander, which was the
>>>> supremest productivity app when it came to managing files quickly. If
>>>> you did, you would realize the benefits of the products that I
>>>> mentioned. 
>>>
>>> There is also something called Midnight Commander, mc.  This seems
>>> to be a version of nc that works in an xterm..
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I tried it, it is no good under X.
>>
>>Both Krusader and gnome-commander work very well for me, Krusader is
>>slightly better so far. I set them up with large fonts, to be easy to
>>use from a RF wireless keyboard with a big screen TV. Krusader is
>>basically ideal for it.
>>
>>i 
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the keyboard/trackball combo you are using and what is
> its effective range?  Would you recommend one for others (ie. are you happy with
> it)?

I will try to check tonight. I am happy with, mostly. 

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On 2008-04-25, Miguel <noone@home.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what is the keyboard/trackball combo you are using and what is
> its effective range?  Would you recommend one for others (ie. are you happy with
> it)?

I can't answer for him, but I use the Adesso 2.4GHz wireless keyboard
with touchpoint.  It is small, and works a dream...   

http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-WIRELESS-SLIMTOUCH-TOUCHPAD-WKB-4000US/dp/B00083Y0YG
http://tinyurl.com/5mccdg


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