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{{Short description|File manager}}

{{Infobox software

| name = PCMan File Manager

| screenshot = Screenshot =of PCManFM file1.2.4 managerin 0.9.3Russian.png

| caption = PCMan File Manager 1.2.4 in Russian

| developer = Hong Jen Yee (PCMan), Andriy Grytsenko (LStranger)

| latest release version = 1.2.31.0 ([[GTK+Qt (software)|Qt]])

| latest_release_date = {{Release date and age|20142024|1011|14}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1280 |title=LibFM + PCManFM 1.2.3 released! |publisher=blog.lxde.org |date=2014-10-14 |accessdate=2014-10-1405}}</ref>

| genre = [[File Manager]]

| latest preview version = 0.10.1 ([[Qt (framework)|Qt]])

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]] ([[GTK+]]), [[C++]] ([[Qt (framework)|Qt]])

| latest_preview_date = {{Release date and age|2015|12|09}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/lxde/pcmanfm-qt/releases |title=PCManFM Qt releases |publisher=github.com/lxde |date=2015-12-09 |accessdate=2016-01-22}}</ref>

| genre operating_system = [[File ManagerUnix-like]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]] ([[GTK+]]), [[C++]] ([[Qt (framework)|Qt]])

| website = https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt

| operating_system = [[Unix-like]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License]]

| website = {{URL|http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM}}

}}

'''PCMan File Manager''' ('''PCManFM''') is a [[file manager]] application, developed by Hong Jen Yee ({{zh|t=洪任諭|p=Hóng Rènyù}}) from [[Taiwan]], which is meant to be a replacement for [[NautilusGNOME (file manager)|NautilusFiles]], [[Dolphin (file manager)|Dolphin]] and [[Thunar]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Craciun|first=Dan|title=PCMan File Manager 0.4.5 Review|url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2008071702135RVSW|publisher=Linux Today|accessdateaccess-date=20 February 2013|archive-date=30 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630074608/https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2008071702135RVSW|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Georgiadis|first=Panos|title=PCMan – An Alternative File Manager|url=http://www.unixmen.com/pcman-an-alternative-file-manager/|publisher=Unixmen|accessdateaccess-date=20 February 2013}}</ref> Released under the [[GNU General Public License]], PCManFM is free software. PCManFM iswas the standard file manager in [[LXDE]], whichuntil isit alsowas developeddiscontinued, byand theit sameremains authorthe instandard conjunctionfile withmanager otherfor developers[[LXQt]]. Since 2010, PCManFM has undergone a complete rewrite from scratch,; so the new PCManFM is totally different from the old 0.5.x series. Buildbuild instructions, setup, and configuration have changed in the process.

Released under the [[GNU General Public License]], PCManFM is intendedfree tosoftware. It followfollows the specifications given by [[Freedesktop.org]] for [[interoperability]] in free software.

Dissatisfied with [[GTK&nbsp;3|GTK3]], Hong Jen Yee experimented with [[Qt (framework)|Qt]] in early 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.lxde.org/?p=966 |title=LXDE - PCManFM file manager is ported to Qt? |publisher=Blog.lxde.org |date=1999-02-22 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-04-27}}</ref> and released the first version of a Qt-based PCManFM on {{dts|2013|03|26}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.lxde.org/?p=990 |title=LXDE - PCManFM Qt 0.1.0 released |publisher=Blog.lxde.org |date=2013-03-27 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-04-27}}</ref> HeThe clarified,new though,PCManFM-Qt thathas thissince meansreplaced nothe departureoriginal fromversion GTKand inis LXDE,a sayingcore “Thecomponent Gtk+of andthe QtLXQt versions[[desktop will coexist”environment]].

== Features ==

PCManFM's features include:

* Full [[GVFSGVfs]] support with seamless access to remote file systems (Ableable to handle <nowiki>sftp://, dav://, smb://,</nowiki>, ...etc. when related back -ends of gvfs are installed.)

* Twin panel

* Thumbnails for pictures

* Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons

* Bookmarks

* Multilingual

* It is multilingual

* Tabbed browsing (Similarsimilar to a [[Firefoxweb browser]])

* Volume management (mount/unmount/eject, requires gvfs)

* Drag & Dropdrop support

* Files can be dragged among tabs

* File association support (Default application)

* Load large directories in reasonable time (faster than some well-known file managers{{Clarify|date=August 2011|which ones?}})

* Provides the following views: icon view, compact view, detailed list view, thumbnail view, and tree view foron the left sidebar

* File association support (Default application)

* Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view, thumbnail view, and tree view for the left sidebar

* Twin panel

== See also ==

{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

* [[Comparison of file managers]]

* [[LXDE]]

* [[LXQt]]

* [[Thunar]]

* [[SpaceFM]]

== References ==

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==External links==

{{Commons category|PCManFM}}

* {{sourceforge|pcmanfm}}

* {{URL|http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm|Sourceforge project page}}

{{File managers}}

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[[Category:Free file managers]]

[[Category:LXDE]]

[[Category:LXQt]]

[[Category:Free software programmed in C]]

[[Category:Software that uses Qt]]

[[Category:File managers that use GTK+]]

[[Category:Software that was ported from GTK+ to Qt]]