QtFM

Qt File Manager for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and macOS.

• XDG integration
• Customizable interface
• Powerful custom command system
• Customizable key bindings
• Drag & drop functionality
• Tabs support
• Removable storage support
• System tray daemon (qtfm-tray(1))
  • Show available storage/optical devices in system tray
  • Auto mount (and open) storage/optical devices when added (not default)
  • Auto play CD/DVD (not default)
• Extensive thumbnail support
  • Supports image formats through ImageMagick
  • Supports PDF and related documents
  • Supports video formats through FFmpeg
  • Supports embedded images in media files

Default shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
New Window	[ctrl+n]
Open Tab	[ctrl+t]
Close Tab	[ctrl+w]
Copy Action	[ctrl+c]
Paste Action	[ctrl+v]
Up Action	[alt+up]
Back Action	[backspace]
Toggle Show Hidden Files	[ctrl+h]
Move to Trash	[del]
Delete	[shift+del]
Open Terminal	[F1]
Quit/Close	[ctrl+q]
Rename Action	[F2]
Zoom Out	[ctrl+-]
Zoom In	[ctrl++]
Focus Path	[ctrl+l]
Toggle Icon View	[F3]
Toggle Detail View	[F4]
Refresh View	[F5]
Drag and Drop Move Modifier	[shift]
Drag and Drop Copy Modifier	[ctrl]
Drag and Drop Ask Action	[alt]

All shortcuts can be modified.

Build

Download the latest release, then make sure you have the required dependencies.

• Requires Qt 5.2+ (LTS recommended)
  • libQt5Widgets
  • libQt5Gui
  • libQt5Concurrent
  • libQt5DBus
  • libQt5Core
• Requires hicolor-icon-theme
• Requires adwaita-icon-theme or similar
• Requires libinotify if using BSD/macOS
• Recommended udisks/bsdisks at run-time
• Recommended ImageMagick (Magick++) 6.9/7.x for improved thumbnail support
  • libMagick++
  • libMagickWand
  • libMagickCore
• Recommended FFmpeg 3+ for video/audio thumbnails/coverart
  • libavdevice
  • libswscale
  • libavformat
  • libavcodec
  • libavutil

Download and extract:

tar xvf qtfm-6.x.y.tar.gz
cd qtfm-6.x.y

Or use git:

git clone https://github.com/rodlie/qtfm
cd qtfm

qmake

Build options:

• CONFIG+=with_magick : This will enable ImageMagick support.
  • MAGICK_PC= : Custom Magick++ pkg-config .pc file.
  • CONFIG+=oldmagick : If you have ImageMagick older than 6.9 (Ubuntu).
• CONFIG+=with_ffmpeg : This will enable FFmpeg support (NOTE! requires ImageMagick).
• CONFIG+=no_tray : This will disable qtfm-tray (no_dbus will also disable this feature).
• CONFIG+=no_dbus : This will disable D-Bus session and udisks features in (lib)QtFM, qtfm-tray will also not be built.
• CONFIG+=with_includes : Install library includes and pkg-config
• CONFIG+=sharedlib : Force shared library.
• PREFIX= : Install prefix, where things are installed when running make install
• DOCDIR= : Location for documentation (default is PREFIX/share/doc/qtfm-VERSION)
• MANDIR= : Location for man pages (default is PREFIX/share/man)
• XDGDIR= : Location of XDG (default is /etc/xdg or PREFIX/etc/xdg)
• LIBDIR= : Library location (default is $PREFIX/lib$LIBSUFFIX), only used if shared library is enabled

Doing a normal build:

mkdir build && cd build
qmake ..
make

You can run the binary bin/qtfm or install to /usr/local:

sudo make install

cmake

Since version 6.3.0 building with CMake is supported.

Build options (added):

ENABLE_MAGICK "Enable support for ImageMagick" (default true)
ENABLE_FFMPEG "Enable support for FFmpeg v3" (default true)
ENABLE_DBUS "Enable support for D-Bus" (default true)
ENABLE_UDISKS "Enable support for udisks" (default true)
ENABLE_TRAY "Enable support for qtfm-tray" (default true)

Doing a normal build:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

You can run the binary qtfm or install to /usr/local:

sudo make install

Packaging

qmake

qmake PREFIX=/usr CONFIG+=with_magick CONFIG+=with_ffmpeg ..
make -jX
make INSTALL_ROOT=<package> install

cmake

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib64 ..
make -jX
make DESTDIR=<package> install