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4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully-featured without bloat, and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including 'virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator and user-defined tools.
As you can see from the Screenshots its display is split into a left directory tree-view, and a right detailed-list view which by default shows both files and directories. There are normally two of these twin panes displayed (thus the name) but this, and almost everything else, can be configured to suit your needs.
It has been built and tested on all the main Linux distros, using both current and older versions. Though it has a gtk-style appearance, it's not tied to any particular desktop.
4Pane comes with a built-in manual, which can also be viewed online. The online version has added images.
4Pane is hosted by SourceForge. Bug-reports are very welcome: please report them to the SourceForge bug tracker.
News
22.05.13
There are now packages available for ubuntu raring and mageia 3, both from here and SourceForge.14.03.13
openSUSE 12.3 packages are now available, both from here and SourceForge.16.01.13
Fedora 18 packages are now available, both from here and SourceForge.19.10.12
There are now packages available for ubuntu quantal, both from here and SourceForge. There is also a package for zenwalk 7.2 available here.I won't create slackware 14.0 packages until there are 14.0 wxGTK packages to build them against. Meanwhile the 13.37 ones work on 14.0 too.
09.09.12
openSUSE 12.2 packages are now available, both from here and SourceForge. There are also updated 12.1 packages that fix a bug which caused 4Pane to crash when trying to identify a novel usb device. Updating is advised.25.06.12
There is now a 'git' repository at SourceForgeI've been using git locally for the last couple of years, interfacing with sourceforge with git-svn. In future I'll use the git repo directly.
The old subversion repository is still there and I'll probably update it, infrequently, for a while; but for the very latest version use git: see Getting 4Pane for details.
17.06.12
4Pane 1.0 is now released.Yes, after four years and five previous releases, it's time for the version-bump to 1.0. The main changes are:
- There is now a built-in su/sudo front-end for executing commands with admin privileges.
- A greater range of compressed files and archives can now be handled.
- 4Pane will now (by default) use stock icons for such things as Copy and Undo.
- Better keyboard-navigation.
- 4Pane now acquires more information about newly-found usb devices, and may not have to ask the user what they are.
Packages for the latest versions of the major distros are available from SourceForge and here.
26.04.12
There are now packages available for ubuntu precise from both here and SourceForge.17.11.11
There are now packages available for both Fedora 16 and openSUSE 12.1 from here and SourceForge.30.08.11
Mandriva 2011.0 packages are now available, both from here and SourceForge.12.07.11
There are now Mageia 1 packages available, both from here and SourceForge.07.05.11
There are now Mepis 11.0 (squeeze) packages available, both from here and SourceForge.01.05.11
There are now packages available for ubuntu natty and slackware 13.37 from both here and SourceForge.13.03.11
There are now packages available for openSUSE 11.4 either from here or from SourceForge.Note that this version of openSUSE has changed how it packages wxWidgets: there are now several different builds available, and 4Pane is built against the default, 'stl' one. The easiest way to fullfil its dependencies is to install the package wxWidgets-devel.
08.01.11
4Pane 0.8.0 is now available. Apart from a few bug-fixes, the main changes are:- There's now a menu item 'Permanently Delete', which really deletes rather than just moving to a can.
- The current pane now subtly highlights its header, or the top of its toolbar, to flag that it has focus.
- i18n-related improvements. There are now Italian and Danish translations available.
Packages for the latest versions of the major distros are available from sourceforge and here.
3.11.10
There are now packages available for Fedora 14 either from here or from SourceForge.12.10.10
There are now maverick packages available in the ubuntu repository (see here) and from SourceForge. As usual they should work for other *buntus too.16.07.10
There are now packages available for openSUSE 11.3 and Mandriva 2010.1 from either here or SourceForge.4.06.10
There are now packages available for Fedora 13, Slackware 13.1 and Zenwalk 6.4 from either here or SourceForge.2.05.10
There are now lucid packages available in the ubuntu repository (see here) and from SourceForge. As usual they will work for other *buntus too.25.04.10
There is now a PCLinuxOS 2010 binary and a source rpm available. Get them either from the repository (see here) or, for the binary, from SourceForge.
25.02.10
Late news just in: apparently 4Pane was the 'Hottest pick' of the month in the HotPicks section of the October '09 Linux Format magazine.02.02.10
4Pane 0.7.0 is now available. Apart from the usual bug-fixes, the main changes are:- It's now possible to overwrite files inside virtual archives (instead of only being able to store duplicates).
- The Options dialog has been altered, and this and several others made smaller so that they'll fit on a netbook screen.
- Various changes to make 4Pane more locale-aware.
Packages for the latest versions of the major distros are available from sourceforge and here.
Please note that, because of the Options dialog changes, running 4Pane now requires version 2.8 (or later) of the wxWidgets toolkit. As wxWidgets-2.8.0 was released 3 years ago, few people should be affected by this.
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