GNOME-COMMANDER(1)

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👑 GNOME-COMMANDER(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay so picture this: a General Commands Manual page, section 1, all about gnome-commander. that's the whole vibe. bestie, we're reading the docs together and it's gonna slay 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gnome-commander — a GNOME file manager 🗂️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnome-commander [-d STRING] [options] [gtk,gnome,bonobo options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Gnome Commander is a fast and powerful graphical filemanager with a "two-panel" interface, in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander. two panels. that's the whole personality. she's giving classic, she's giving efficient, she's giving main character energy 🎀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --help — shows a summary of the options. your lil "what even is this" button 🫶
  • --version — shows the version of the program.
  • -l, --start-left-dir=STRING — pick the start directory for the left pane 👈
  • -r, --start-right-dir=STRING — pick the start directory for the right pane 👉
  • --config-dir=STRING — pick the directory where the configuration files live 🗄️
  • -d, --debug=STRING — specify the debug flags to use. debug output gets written to STDOUT, no cap.

possible flags, and yes there are a lot of them, she's thorough:

  • a: set all debug flags (go big or go home)
  • c: file and directory counting
  • d: directory ref-counting
  • f: file ref-counting
  • g: run_command debugging
  • i: imageloader
  • k: directory pool
  • l: directory listings
  • m: connection debugging
  • n: directory monitoring
  • p: script monitoring
  • s: SMB network browser
  • t: metadata tags
  • u: user actions debugging
  • v: internal viewer
  • w: widget_lookup
  • x: xfer
  • y: brief MIME based imageload
  • z: detailed MIME based imageload
  • [gtk,gnome,bonobo options] — the standard gtk, gnome and bonobo options are supported. run --help to see the possible options 👀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

gnome-commander -d nvl

starts Gnome Commander with debugging turned on for the directory listings, the internal viewer and the directory monitoring facilities. literally three flags in one lil string, ate 💀✨

🎀 FOLDERS 🎀

  • ~/.config/gnome-commander/scripts — user specific scripts, used in the file popup menu 🖱️
  • /usr/lib/gnome-commander/plugins — system-wide plugins 🧩

🙈 BUGS 🙈

if you find any bugs, please report them (or honestly, better yet, fix them and send a patch, icon behaviour 👑). see the Gnome Commander home page for more info:

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome-commander/

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Gnome Commander was originally developed by Marcus Bjurman from 2001 till 2004. Assaf Gordon added the internal viewer code and other features. Piotr Eljasiak was the project manager from 2006 until 2012. Since 2013 till now, Uwe Scholz <u.scholz83@gmx.de> is the current project manager.

Translations and other contributions where made by numerous people. See:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/graphs/main

The original manual page was written by Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Current manual page is maintained as the part of the Gnome Commander project.

🌈 and that's the whole page, bestie. no notes. periodt.

okay and one last lil sign-off because we respect the footer around here: this cutie comes to you from the General Commands Manual source, dated Jan 15 2021, filed under GNOME-COMMANDER(1) 🦋 ⭐ 💖

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