worker(1)

💖 NAME 💖

worker — the file manager for the X Window System, bestie. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

worker [options]
worker [directory1[ directory2]]

Like, you can just run her with options, or throw one or two directories at her and she'll deal. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So worker is a graphical file manager for the X Window System, and honestly? She's iconic. She rocks the classical two-panel view of your files and directories — you know, the left side and the right side, the classic arrangement, no notes. 👑

She comes with many internal operations already built in, and on top of that, any external program can be used to operate on whatever items you've got selected. So flexible. So main character. ✨

And the way you can easily add actions to filetypes or buttons using the builtin configuration program?? Obsessed. Genuinely obsessed. 🎀

For the full details, go read the documentation hanging out at the Worker homepage (peep the AVAILABILITY section below, iykyk). 📖

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -h, --help — shows you a little help about the options and then dips immediately. Quick lil' moment, then she's gone. 💨
• -V, --version — shows the program version. That's it, that's the whole job. ✨
• -c, --config=<path> — use the given path for your configuration data. Your config, your rules, your location. 💅
• --override_xim=<yes/no> — overrides the global XIM setting so she uses the simple method instead. Yep, <yes/no> is literally what you type there. 🫶

Any other argument? She's gonna interpret it as a directory to show on the left side. And if you give her a second argument, that one can be a directory to show on the right side. Two panels, two directories, perfect symmetry. 🦋

💀 SIGNALS 💀

• SIGUSR1 — this one makes Worker stop executing the command list. Super useful when you're stuck in an endless loop and you're just like... bestie. bestie please. 😭 Send SIGUSR1 and she'll chill.

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• WORKER_XEDITOR — overrides the editor that Worker uses in the default configuration. Swap her editor out whenever you want, no cap. ✏️

🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.worker — Worker's default configuration directory. (Can be changed with the -c argument, remember?) Your home base, her home base. 🏠
• ~/.worker/config — Worker's configuration. The whole personality lives here. 📝
• ~/.worker/lvconf — the left and right list view configuration settings. Both panels' lil' settings, side by side, as they should be. 👯
• ~/.worker/bookmarks — the list of stored bookmarks and their categories (labels). All your faves, filed and tagged. 🔖
• ~/.worker/prefix.db — a probability database that suggests the best bookmark entry for a given filter string. She's smart like that. 🧠
• ~/.worker/directory-history — the list of directories visited in the past. Heads up: this feature must be enabled in the path jump configuration. 🕰️
• ~/.worker/directory-history.prob — a probability database that suggests the best path jump entry for a given filter string. More brainpower, more slay. ⭐
• ~/.worker/filterselect-history — the list of filters used for select list view entries based on a pattern. 🎯
• ~/.worker/last_running_version — contains the latest Worker version run on this account. She uses it for importing new config examples when updating Worker. So when you update, she knows. 🔄
• ~/.worker/menu-choices — a probability database that suggests the best command menu entry for a given filter string. Yes, another one, she keeps receipts. 📚
• ~/.worker/setfilter-history — the filters previously applied to the list view. 🌸
• ~/.worker/startprog-history — the commands previously executed in the startprog command. Your command history, preserved. 💾
• ~/.worker/volman_ignore_devices — the list of volumes to ignore in the volume manager. You can configure this right in the volume manager UI, easy. 🚫
• ~/.worker/override_xim — a special file that tells worker to use a fallback X input method if this file exists. Used in case the keyboard is stuck (💀 scary but true). The --override_xim argument can be used to change this behavior.

👑 LICENSE 👑

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License V2 or later as published by the Free Software Foundation. Fancy and free, periodt. 💜

🔥 AVAILABILITY 🔥

The latest version and the online documentation can be found at:

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker

Go forth and read. 📖✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ralf Hoffmann <ralf@boomerangsworld.de>

Worker file manager — brought to you by the General Commands Manual era, dated February 2, 2014, and yeah, it's the worker(1) page. Mwah. 💅🫶🌸