SpaceFM a free open source multi-panel desktop and file manager for Linux-based operating systems

SpaceFM is a free open source multi-panel tabbed desktop and file manager for Unix/Linux-based operating systems.

It has a built-in VFS, udev, or HAL-based device manager.

It is a customizable menu system and bash-GTK integration.

spaceFM includes a built-in Konsole tool (Bash command shell) for various operations using terminal mode.

SpaceFM dependencies:

1] GTK+ v2 or v3

2] udev or eudev or HAL

3] desktop-file-utils

4] shared-mime-info

SpaceFM supports the following tasks:

1] View directory structure

2] View folders and files

3] View connected devices

4] Perform file Search

5] Open Url using FTP protocol

6] Open Url using SSH protocol

7] Open Url using Smb protocol

8] External device mount and unmount operations

9] Search file using regular expressions

10] Search file using file size and date of creation

When we start SpaceFM Application, By-default the SpaceFM app will open the Home folder location contents(Including folder names & files).

How to open File URLs using Various protocols:

1] Click File ----> Open URL

2] Provide file URL with protocol and click OK

supported Url protocols are:

Smb

Ssh

ftp

How to search for a file or folder :

1] Click File ----> File search ---->Select general Tab

2] Provide file name to perform search operation

3] Provide a place to search(Path or directory structure)

we can add multiple locations/paths to search a particular document

4] Select case matching (case sensitive names) for efficient search

5] Select search in subfolders option

6] Select search hidden files

7]Click find

How to search for a file or folder using file contents:

1] Click File ----> File search ---->Select content Tab

2] provide some text content to perform match using regular expression

3] Use case sensitive option for efficient search

4] Use a regular expression for efficient search

5] Click find

How to search for a file or folder using file size and date:

1] Click File ----> File search ---->Size & date Tab

2] Provide file size with i] Greater than criteria

ii] Smaller than criteria

3] Select date/date range from the calendar control

4] Click find

SpaceFm Terminal/Bash console:

1] Click File ----> Terminal / root terminal

2] USe commands to interact with file system

Terminal for: guests users

Root terminal for Admin users

How to display tabbed/panels view for multiple files locations:

1] Click View Tab

2] Select panels from the given list of panels

we can select a maximum of four panels at a time

How to get the list of connected media devices/Device storage:

1] Click the Devices tab

2] Click the show devices option

This operation will list out various secondary storage devices connected to our system with their file contents.

SpaceFM Commands Panel:

Click Tools tab ------> Click Ls

Provide command to operate a file system

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