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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; this version has added images.


4Pane is hosted by SourceForge. Bug-reports are very welcome: please report them to the SourceForge bug tracker.


News

26.05.08

4Pane is now in the official Zenwalk repositories! Many thanks to Yusri Johan for creating its Zenwalk package and for his advocacy of 4Pane.

29.05.08

4Pane 0.5.1 is now released. Apart from bug-fixes, the main differences are:
  • i18n is now supported.
  • When mounting a removable device partition that's not in /etc/fstab, 4Pane now attempts to give the user write permission.
  • You can now choose, when Moving/Pasting a relative symlink, for its original target not to be retained.
  • Changes to help distro packagers.
Additional binaries are now available for the latest distro versions, and also for Puppy and Damn Small Linux.