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any semi light gui file manager like pcmanfm but indexed folders? long spin icon

long spin icon when I open a folder with many files/folders like 1300...where I keep torrents.
I used xfe when on freebsd and it never seemed to make me wait that long, maybe was indexed? hmmm
Any suggestion?
I hate semi bloaty apps prefect lean n mean....but not a like command line enthusiast When I want gui file manager like gasp windows explorer.

Re: any semi light gui file manager like pcmanfm but indexed folders? long spin icon

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Although i didn't completely understand your question, try with doublecmd-qt6, it loads huge folders quickly before resolving thumbs/etc.

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Quote from: Hitman – on
Although i didn't completely understand your question, try with doublecmd-qt6, it loads huge folders quickly before resolving thumbs/etc.

This seemed goofy at first but thumbnail coverage kicks ass over pcmanfm.
thx!!

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I think that pcmanfm is somehow discontinued as the whole LXDE therefore you could try pcmanfm-qt.
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galaxy/pcmanfm 1.3.2-1 (lxde)
    Extremely fast and lightweight file manager
galaxy/pcmanfm-gtk3 1.3.2-1 (lxde-gtk3)
    Extremely fast and lightweight file manager (GTK+ 3 version)
galaxy/pcmanfm-qt 2.0.0-1 (lxqt)
    The LXQt file manager, Qt port of PCManFM

 I use nemo not sure how it handles thumbnails compared to others.

Re: any semi light gui file manager like pcmanfm but indexed folders? long spin icon

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thunar - obviously?

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I kind of omitted thunar, had a look now, seems to be slightly faster than pcmanfm.

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Quote from: Hitman – on
I kind of omitted thunar, had a look now, seems to be slightly faster than pcmanfm.


Well how fast does ls work?

The drives also cache data so running a command a second time usually speeds things up.  But at some point you are going to bang your head on the speed that the inode table can be read.

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Even there some guy made a super slim version of ls :D https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/useful.html

With this occasion i also wanted to mention rox, a very slim but well enough featured file manager in puppy linux, but it doesn't longer seem to compile with whatever tooling used in AUR. This one works! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rox-filer-hugeicons

And yeah inode cache gets you over half of the way through.