1PCManFM(1) User Manuals PCManFM(1)
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6 PCManFM - A lightweight Gtk+ based file manager for X Window.
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9 pcmanfm [ options ] [ directories ]
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12 PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is an extremely fast, lightweight, yet
13 feature-rich file manager with tabbed browsing. It is the default file
14 manager for the lightweight desktop environment, LXDE.
15 Features:
16 * Extremely fast and lightweight
17 * Can be started in one second on normal machine
18 * Tabbed browsing (similar to Firefox)
19 * Drag & Drop handling with XDS (X direct save) support
20 * Files can be dragged between tabs
21 * Load large directories in reasonable time
22 * File association support (with default application setup)
23 * Basic thumbnail support with optional EXIF support
24 * Bookmarks support
25 * Handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly
26 * Provide icon view and detailed list view
27 * Standard compliant (follows FreeDesktop.org specifications)
28 * Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2.0)
29 * Full desktop management
30 * Can set individual wallpapers for each workspace
31 * Removable media mounts support
32 * Seamless access to remote file systems such as sftp, smb, and ftp
33 * Trash can support
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36 Global options:
37 -d, --daemon-mode run PCManFM as a daemon (ignored if another PCManFM
38 is already running)
39 -p profile, --profile=profile
41 load another configuration profile instead of
42 "default"
43 --no-desktop for Nautilus compatibility
45 Per-instance options:
47 --desktop launch desktop manager (ignores -d)
48 --desktop-off turn off desktop manager if it's running
50 --desktop-pref open desktop preference dialog
52 --one-screen manage desktop only on current X screen (only if
54 --desktop is used)
55 -n, --new-win open directories in new window
57 --role set X role for window (only if -n is used)
59 --wallpaper-mode=mode
61 Set mode of desktop wallpaper, mode is:
62 color (fill with solid color),
63 stretch (stretch to fill entire monitor),
64 fit (stretch to fit monitor size),
65 center (place on center of monitor),
66 tile (tile to fill entire monitor),
67 crop (stretch and crop to fill monitor), or
68 screen (stretch to fill entire screen)
69 -w file, --set-wallpaper=file
71 set desktop wallpaper from image file
72 --show-pref n open preferences dialog on page n
74 -f, --find-files open a file search dialog window
76 directories directories to open
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80 The PCMan File Manager can manage your desktop. That includes drawing
81 some background on it and showing icons of Desktop folder. To activate
82 the desktop management the pcmanfm should be executed with option
83 --desktop. Other option that affects this mode is --one-screen. Change
84 running desktop manager parameters you can by executing pcmanfm with
85 option --desktop-pref which opens window with preferences or using com‐
86 mand line parameters for options --set-wallpaper or --wallpaper-mode.
87 Execution pcmanfm --desktop-off terminates desktop management.
88 While pcmanfm manages desktop it displays icons on desktop. Behavior of
90 icons resembles folder view in main window of pcmanfm but icons on
91 desktop can "remember" their position. If you have two or more monitors
92 then desktop background and set of icons will be shown on each of them.
93 Icons positions will be remembered individually for each of monitors.
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96 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
97 The current desktop environment. This variable affects items
98 which will be shown in menu://applications/ folder.
99 XDG_MENU_PREFIX
100 The prefix for XDG menu definition XML file. This variable
101 affects layout of items shown in menu://applications/ folder.
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104 ~/.config/pcmanfm/default
105 The default configuration profile directory
106 ~/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf
107 The main configuration file
108 ~/.config/pcmanfm/default/desktop-items-0.conf
109 The desktop items layout for screen 0 (primary screen)
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112 PCManFM is named after its author's nickname on the internet, PCMan. It
113 was written by Hong Jen Yee <pcman.tw@gmail.com>.
114 This manual page was written by Tetralet <tetralet@debian.or.tw> for
116 the Debian GNU/Linux system. Updated by Andriy Grytsenko
117 <andrej@rep.kiev.ua>
118pcmanfm 1.3.1 April 2018 PCManFM(1)