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The default file manager for the lightweight desktop environment, LXDE

PCManFM's features include:

  • Full gvfs support with seamless access to remote filesystems (Able to handle sftp://, webdav://, smb://, ...etc when related backends of gvfs are installed.)
  • Thumbnails for pictures
  • Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons
  • Bookmarks
  • It is multilingual
  • Can be started in one second on normal machine
  • Tabbed browsing (Similar to Firefox)
  • Volume management (mount/umount/eject, requires gvfs)
  • Drag & Drop support
  • Files can be dragged among tabs
  • Load large directories in reasonable time (faster then some well-known file managers)
  • File association support (Default application)
  • Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view, and thumbnail view.
  • Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)
  • Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)
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set PCmanFM default folder view

In upmenu I can only preserve view for folders. I can press ctrl+4, but whats the way to change the default view permanent? (Lubuntu 14.04, PCManFM 1.2.0)
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How to set PcManFm as the default file manager?

I think Nautilus is so slow, and I'd like to move to PCmanFM, but didn't find any good tips how to do this in Ubuntu 12.10. I have PCmanFM installed already, and I even changed: $ sudo gedit…
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Can I add “open in terminal” to the right-click mouse menu in Lubuntu?

In vanilla Ubuntu, there is a quite useful application called Nautilus-open-terminal, which allows the user to open the terminal in any folder by simply right-clicking and selecting "Open in terminal". Lubuntu uses PCManFM, not Nautilus, so…
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How to add "Refresh" option to right click menu in Lubuntu?

I have many users at the place I work, expressing the notion of switching to Ubuntu. Most of them, for whatever weird reason wanting to know if its possible to have refresh added when you right click on the desktop. Is that possible?
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Are there any SVN plugins for PCManFm?

For my personal development I use an SVN and while it works great in my IDE I would also like to see things when I'm viewing my workspace in PCManFm. Are there any plugins that do this? I can't seem to find any in Google.
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LXDE: PCManFM Thumbnails of images > 2MB are not shown

Im using LXDE, with PCManFM but images bigger than 2MB are just shown with image-symbol and not with the thumbnail. How Can I change that behavior?
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How to make nautilus the default file manager in LXDE

Correcting this question, I've realised that I was - and still am - unable to sync folders with ubuntu one, because pcmanfm is still my default LXDE file manager, despite the fact that I've changed the panel settings as I should have done (at least…
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Is there a way to make Lubuntu 18.10 look like Lubuntu 18.04?

Since Lubuntu changes its desktop from LXDE to LXQt there have been changes in icons of the panel and PCmanFM, the file manager. I am not an experienced user but I am wondering why a change in technology also has to come with changes in the look and…
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How can I change the icon size on lubuntu's desktop?

I want to change the icons on the lubuntu desktop.
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how to skip "execute file" dialog in lubuntu (PCManFM)

When I click on an executable file in PCManFM (default file manager in Lubuntu), I get an “Execute File” dialog with three options (Execute, Execute in terminal, Cancel). Is there a way to set default action (e.g. Execute) in order to skip annoying…
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How to access Samba shares in Lubuntu 12.10

Lubuntu uses PCmanFM as it's default file manager. I want to access my samba share with PCmanFM to upload and download files. I've already installed the "samba" and "cifs-utils" packages and thier dependancies. Installing them seems to allow me to…
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Is it possible to set the default behaviour of double clicking a folder to be "Open in New Window" with PCManFM?

My mother uses separate desktops heavily and finds it very irritating when she accidentally double-clicks on a folder on her desktop rather than right-clicking and choosing "open in new window" as she's trained herself to usually do. Is there a way…
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How to send files to the trash can without the confirmation dialog

If I delete a file, the following message appears on the screen: How could disable that message and send the file straight to the trash can?
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How to change folder icons on pcmanfm panel

I'm using PCManFM on Lubuntu 14.04: As you can see, some personal folders on the Places panel have different icons. For example, Downloads or Videos folder. Using ctrl+d we can add another folders to the Places. A kind of bookmark. For example, my…
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How to see the full file name on the Lubuntu Desktop?

If I have a file with several characters in it, only a certain number of initial characters is displayed on the Lubuntu desktop and Xfce desktops. For example, I have a file titled, "interesting-links-on-default-browsers". It shows as…
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