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We can use a web browser similar to a file manager, for example use Google Chrome to go to file:///home/user/. And web browsers can be used to open many file types like PDF, PNG, MP4, MP3, TXT etc.

Is there a "file browser" that can open such file types internally like a web browser?

pomsky
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You can actually do something like that with Nautilus aka (GNOME) Files (default in a vanilla Ubuntu installation). First you need to install the gnome-sushi package by running

sudo apt install gnome-sushi

After installing gnome-sushi, you can open files of various types (e.g. image, text, video, pdf, audio etc.) in Nautilus by selecting the file and hitting the Spacebar key.

pomsky
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Double Commander has some of such functions (old nortoncommander clone, but way way better) maybe this one opens up jpg and images when F3 pressed also TXT DOC

Bas Lamerichs
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