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To obtain my PGP keys, run:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 0x01937621 0x107165A1
Key fingerprint = 7977 070A 723C 6CCB 696C 0B02 27A5 AC5A 0193 7621
Key fingerprint = 8835 279A 1936 2706 94BE 8B7C 0EAE C485 1071 65A1
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Hey I wanted to say thanks for helping me with the webpics script. This script has many uses. I like how it resizes the thumb pics in a better resolution without loosing quality.
Glad it worked well for you. That script isn’t actually available on here yet, but I’d like to add it – just needs a little work.
Just wanted to say you have a really nice blog. Interesting, informative posts. I really liked the arch posts. Keep up the good work!
Thanks I appreciate it
Thank you for producing such a great blog, filled with so much useful information. Thanks for giving back to the FOSS community in the way you have.
I stumbled across your blog from a link in a post in the LXDE-PCManFM forum. I’m sure glad I did!
I have this bookmarked and will return! Keep up the excellent work.
Glad you find it useful – thanks for your feedback
Trying to get your key to verify GPGFileTool-1.0.2 from sourceforge. Not found.
$ gpg –keyserver keys.gnupg.net –recv-keys 0x107165A1
gpg: requesting key 107165A1 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpgkeys: key 107165A1 not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
$
That was probably a transient error – maybe their server was down? If it persists please let me know. I get (already on my keyring):
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 0x107165A1 gpg: requesting key 107165A1 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net gpg: key 107165A1: "IgnorantGuru (igurublog.wordpress.com) " not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1I’ve always wanted the following idea in a tabbed file manager. No idea how feasible it is, but here it is:
Send a file(s) from the current tab to any other open tab with a couple of keypresses. Copy/move/link like this: Mod + C +1 = copy to tab 1, Mod + M + 2 = Move to 2, Mod + L + 1 = make link in 1.
An alternative: A dialog with a drop-down list with the format “# – /directory/” (# = tab #). Pressing a number focuses that tab in the drop-down list, letting you see the directory it currently contains. If it’s the one you want, press enter. Copy/move/link might be selectable in the same dialog.
Interesting idea. I would lean more toward adding key shortcuts for switching tabs, then the existing cut/copy/paste/link keys could be used (if you don’t think that’s a good idea, please tell me why). I’ll take a look at this next time I work on pcmanfm-mod – thanks for contributing.
Azrael3k wrote:
Can PCManFM-Mod be used to force a copy like the command cp -r -p ?
You could assign one of the user commands to this, and perhaps use a zenity dialog to prompt for the destination. The upcoming version 2 will accommodate additional user command features that will make this easier. But as far as fixing the problem, I’m not sure it should be – generally file managers stop on errors. But if you think it should work differently, maybe drop me an email with the details and how I can generate the error you’re talking about.
In my opionion a good file manager should not just stop a copy for any error that it comes across. ie. Nautilus will pop up with a message to skip or skip all when it encounters a read or write error it doesn’t just stop all together and throw up a generic I/O message. PCMAN just seems to completely stop working. Windows also seems to have the problems with stopping when it crosses an error. I understand that if the HDD is no longer accessible the file manager can display an I/O error (perhaps a small reason ie. the HDD is inaccessible.) If PCMAN could just continue copying without stopping would be ideal since we can’t always sit in front of the computer and watch and/or start a copy and leave for the night and check it in the morning and find out only 5% copied because of a file it couldn’t read and have to start the copy all over again and watch it. Even if there was an option that could be selected before the copy to do a “unstoppable copy” that would be acceptable if you think that PCMAN should at least display a skip/skip all button when running into errors by default.
Oh and I am Azrael3k FYI :)
Thus far none of the legacy pcmanfm code pertaining to this has been modified in pcmanfm-mod. I agree that the behavior in this area can use some improvement, and I’m going to look into it for the v2 update. Depending on how that goes, it may be changed with the initial v2 release, or it may take a bit longer. Thanks for your feedback and keep an eye out for the updates.
In addition to the “unstoppable copy” option it would be nice for a log of what didn’t copy over.
These capabilities are now included in spacefm (PCManFM-Mod – The Next Generation).
Hello. I am a packager for PCLinuxOS and I have just packaged a request from one of our users. SpaceFM is now being tested on our forum, and I was instructed by one of our admins to contact the SpaceFM dev and share the packaged RPM in both 32 and 64 bit.
Thank you for your attention
Thanks for contacting me. Feel free to contact me by email (listed at the top of this page). One tester of your package left this comment on the spacefm forum. I recommend providing both a default build and a hal build at this time, because there are still a fair number of users using hal. But if you build with ––enable-hal, this disables the udisks support. I build both spacefm and spacefm-hal packages for debian – you can refer to the debian/control and debian/control-hal and also debian/rules and debian/rules-hal files in the tarball for the dependency and build differences. FYI spacefm has no formal dependency on udisks – it will just run the udisks executable if present and if not built with hal support.
If I can be of further assistance feel free to contact me.
I now see your forum thread. You mention there possible problems with inotify. spacefm accesses the kernel API directly so it may be okay, but if not you can build with ––disable-inotify and add fam or gamin dependencies as detailed in README and also configure ––help. That is independent of the hal build issue.
SpaceFM is the best FM for linux i found for now.
But at the end i discover a bad thing. Samba shares “smb://” that was well working in pcmanfm is not supported from spacefm. If spacefm is a fork, i suppose it forked before pcmanfm added samba shares.
Anyway, a filemanager that don’t supoprt smb:// is very limited. Every time i need to browse the network i have to use another one. Is it complicated to bring it inside from pcmanfm ?
Thanks for your feedback. The current pcmanfm is a gvfs (gnome) app, and that’s where the network browsing comes in there. spacefm does not use this, and there are no current plans to add network browsing. Some people use thunar or another fm to browse the network and connect, then use spacefm. You can also add custom commands to spacefm, so you could use this to mount the share – then it will be accessible. spacefm only accesses mounted filesystems and it makes no network connections.
Hi, just thought I should let you know that Spacefm-0.7.0 is now in the repos at Sabayon. Downloaded and all set up. Works a treat.
Well done.
Thanks for letting me know. I’ve updated the homepage and user’s manual with this info (if you have a direct link I can add that too).
How can we help you to traduct space-fm, because I’m french and space-fm is just is not completely translated into French.
I can do that if you explain me how to do.
Thanks, you can read the translation instructions. Also, jpfleury started a translation as mentioned here. I don’t know how far along he is but you might post a comment there or email him asking how you might help.
The latest Parted Magic 2012_05_14 now uses SpaceFM as the default file manager.
Thanks I updated the website.
have you a donate options? I really like your FM
Sure – for now anyone can send me an email for donation instructions. I just sent you an email at your given address – thanks for contributing to the project!New donation info – thanks!
SystemRescueCd 2.8.1 includes SpaceFM as an available file manager (though not necessarily the default).
Thanks – good to see they’ve picked it up
say yay! “gentoo developers unhappy, fork udev” http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIzMDU
Hi !
is there an option to use something like http://help.transifex.com/intro/projects.html to contribute to the translations ? I’m afraid, I’ll be too slow without some support from other translators.
Hi, thanks for your interest in translating. Unfortunately I haven’t setup a translation server, but it should be done. I’ll see if I can enlist someone to set this up, hopefully soon. I’m not familiar with transflex but there was another server that was recommended – I now forget the name. In the meantime even if you only do a partial translation it helps – doesn’t all have to be done at once.
well, if you’re willing to use a cloud solution instead of running a translation server of your own, you could jast start a project on the transifex server. Actually, even I could do this (if you want) and then pass the ownership to you.
I started with poedit already, but unfortunately I can’t get the old pcmanfm de.po completely into my translation thesaurus, so ther are > 1200 lines to translate..
Thanks – I just sent you an email on this.
Spacefm is fantastic! We all must praise your work and be grateful… but if you could add just a little feature to the back/forward buttons it would be great: full path of previous locations, like pcmanfm.
Thanks for your feedback and suggestion – I’ve noted it. I assume you mean showing the full path in a tooltip on the back/fwd buttons.