Greetings all!
Can anyone recommend a Midnight Commander like file manager that will run on Windows Vista please? I have downloaded and installed 2 MC's for Vista, but the actual MC user window running under Vista is very small compared to my screens real estate, and I cannot seem to make it fill half the screen.
I have found Double Commander for Windows:
http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/
and installed that, and wondered if there is a version of Double Commander available for Centos please?
Any decent File Manager that will run on Centos and Windows would be fine. That way I can easily switch between the two OSes as needed, and be comfortable using just one cross-platform file manager.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net Subject: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
Greetings all!
Can anyone recommend a Midnight Commander like file manager that will run on Windows Vista please? I have downloaded and installed 2 MC's for Vista, but the actual MC user window running under Vista is very small compared to my screens real estate, and I cannot seem to make it fill half the screen.
I have found Double Commander for Windows:
http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/
and installed that, and wondered if there is a version of Double Commander available for Centos please?
Any decent File Manager that will run on Centos and Windows would be fine. That way I can easily switch between the two OSes as needed, and be comfortable using just one cross-platform file manager.
Answering my own post :)
I have downloaded DC from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/DC%20for%20Linux%2032%20bit/...
and got the GTK2 version, which works OK for me on Centos 5.6, and it is compiled with Free Pascal. The Qt version did work for me.
Basically it's a precompiled binary, ready to run, similar to the way Eclipse IDE works out of the box.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/DC%20for%20Linux%2032%20bit/...
I need to configure it now, and check out it's operation.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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Here's the output of running DC from the command line:
[root@karsites doublecmd]# ./doublecmd.sh Start watching Double Commander 0.4.5.2 beta Revision: 2968M Build: 2010/08/21 Lazarus: 0.9.29-23841 Free Pascal: 2.4.0 Platform: i386-Linux-gtk2 This program is free software released under terms of GNU GPL 2 (C)opyright 2006-2010 Koblov Alexander (Alexx2000@mail.ru) and contributors (see about dialog) Executable directory: /downloads/DoubleCmd/0.4.5.2/doublecmd/ Loading configuration... gFontName:default gEditorFontName:Monospace gViewerEditorFontName:Monospace Loading viewer position... Loading editor position... WDX:LOAD:/downloads/DoubleCmd/0.4.5.2/doublecmd/plugins/wdx/rpm_wdx/rpm_wdx.wdx WDX:LOAD:/downloads/DoubleCmd/0.4.5.2/doublecmd/plugins/wdx/deb_wdx/deb_wdx.wdx FsetName=Default FsetName=Brief FsetCount=2 TFrameFilePanel.Create components TFrameFilePanel.Create components frmMain.frmMainShow
HTH
Keith
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
Here's the output of running DC from the command line:
[root@karsites doublecmd]# ./doublecmd.sh Start watching Double Commander 0.4.5.2 beta Revision: 2968M Build: 2010/08/21 Lazarus: 0.9.29-23841 Free Pascal: 2.4.0 Platform: i386-Linux-gtk2 This program is free software released under terms of GNU GPL 2 (C)opyright 2006-2010 Koblov Alexander (Alexx2000@mail.ru) and contributors (see about dialog)
I'm using DC now for Centos 5.6 main machine, and also on my Vista laptop.
I also found http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
which is a gFTP type of FTP client.
I managed to connect to my main machine from my Vista laptop running this and FTP'd a test file from Centos 5.6 to my Vista laptop.
Next thing is to connect my Vista laptop to the CUPS server running on my Centos main machine, so I can print from some Vista laptop apps like Firefox, to my printer connected to the Centos 5.6 machine.
I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest option for me.
There is also alot of GPL's stuff written for Windows as well on sourceforge, so I might as well setup my laptop so I can make free use of that, as it's there for the taking.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest option for me.
I'm probably a bit biased since lately I've been messing around with virtual machines too much. If you installed Vista only for that single app, would it had been easier if you installed Vista as a virtual guest on your system, using a raw partition which you can then access from the host CentOS using the filemanager you're already familar with? Or did the app require too much graphical processing power to be viable in a guest OS?
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.admin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest option for me.
I'm probably a bit biased since lately I've been messing around with virtual machines too much. If you installed Vista only for that single app, would it had been easier if you installed Vista as a virtual guest on your system, using a raw partition which you can then access from the host CentOS using the filemanager you're already familar with? Or did the app require too much graphical processing power to be viable in a guest OS?
I did want to try doing that, but AFAIK my processor does not support the required VM instructions.
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Duron(tm) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1200.003 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic : mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr : sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up : nonstop_tsc ts bogomips : 2400.00
Is that correct?
The other thing is, I read that to install a Windows OS in a VM you will need the proper full OS installation disk, and I only have the original 'Tech Guys' Advent laptop recovery disk, so I have just done a fresh install onto the laptop. Apparently the Windows recovery disk checks for some sort of ID string somewhere in the lappy's BIOS, and it does not even prompt for the M$ licence key serial number.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.admin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest option for me.
I'm probably a bit biased since lately I've been messing around with virtual machines too much. If you installed Vista only for that single app, would it had been easier if you installed Vista as a virtual guest on your system, using a raw partition which you can then access from the host CentOS using the filemanager you're already familar with? Or did the app require too much graphical processing power to be viable in a guest OS?
I did want to try doing that, but AFAIK my processor does not support the required VM instructions.
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Duron(tm) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1200.003 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic : mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr : sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up : nonstop_tsc ts bogomips : 2400.00
Is that correct?
The other thing is, I read that to install a Windows OS in a VM you will need the proper full OS installation disk, and I only have the original 'Tech Guys' Advent laptop recovery disk, so I have just done a fresh install onto the laptop. Apparently the Windows recovery disk checks for some sort of ID string somewhere in the lappy's BIOS, and it does not even prompt for the M$ licence key serial number.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
Sorry for the double-post, but I'm having to send my emails via my web hosting service SMTP server, as if I use my own ISP's SMTP server, I cannot post to the mc@gnome.org list, as they use UCEprotect and won't accept mails from my ISP's server - unless they pay some sort of fee to be un-blacklisted.
I've asked on the rpmforge list if they can compile Alpine with the PASSFILE option next time it's upgraded. At the moment every time I send an email I have to manually enter a password, which is a bit tedious!
The other thing is to go back to using my ISP's SMTP server, and wait until rpmforge release an update of Alpine. I really need to contact the admin at gnome.org to tell tham about this.
Anyone else had problems like this with UCEprotect?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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