![]() ![]() Experience with the command line definitely helped for the administration of our laboratory backup server, a Sinology network disk station. For example, our collection of reagents is maintained on a LabKey server on Ubuntu in a virtual machine. Using Ubuntu at home had an impact on my daily professional life. I first tested Linux on my laptop in 20 but was only convinced to permanently switch to using it for my personal use with the arrival of Ubuntu Dapper Drake in 2006. This post assumes you have some knowledge of Linux, specifically how to install applications and how to edit configuration files. Still, there are plenty of things that are better done on a desktop, including computation-heavy or specialized analyses. With the ubiquity of web applications, the desktop environment might seem less important than a few years ago. I’d appreciate it.If you consider switching to Linux from a Windows or OS X machine, you will find some of my experience in this post, one year after starting to use Linux exclusively for my professional life as a scientist. If you liked this article, please share it on, StumbleUpon or Digg. Maybe it will help all those who didn’t decide yet □ Since doesn’t have polls it could be a nice alternative. It would be cool if everyone wrote what file manager he or she uses. I hope this article will help you decide which file manger is right for you. Ability to enqueue multimedia files (open command).Progress bars or dialogs for lengthy file operations.Create / Extract archives (tar, zip, 7zip gzip, bzip2, rar, lzh, ace and compress archives are supported).Icons themes (Xfe, GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Tango, Windows…).Back and forward history lists for directory navigation.Right mouse click pop-up menu in tree list and file list.Double click or single click files and directories navigation.Optional trash can for file delete operations (trash can directory is ~/.xfe/trash’).Drag and Drop in Xfe and from and to your favorite desktop.Copy/cut/paste files from and to your favorite desktop (GNOME/KDE/XFCE).Integrated RPM or DEB packages viewer / installer / uninstaller (X File Package, xfp). ![]() Integrated image viewer (X File Image, xfi).Integrated text viewer (X File View, xfv).Integrated text editor (X File Write, xfw).Commander/Explorer interface with four file manager modes : a) one panel, b) a directory tree and one panel, c) two panels, and d) a directory tree and two panels.UTF-8 support (through the FOX 1.6 library).Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe is small, very fast and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. A tool for advanced renaming of files supporting various types of meta-data.Tools for searching, quick file name search in current dir, symlinking, comparing directories.Fast file viewer for text, images and image meta data (Exif and IPTC).Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting (“no-mount” option for just quick access to folders or otherwise automounted devices).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.Right click mouse menu with the usual file operations to run, open, open with., delete or rename files and folders, and also to set properties like ownership and permissions.GNOME mime types (MIME-Type management under development).GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions. ![]()
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