muCommander

muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. It runs on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...).

Documentation can be found at https://mucommander.atlassian.net/wiki/ .

Please visit the muCommander forums (http://www.mucommander.com/forums) to ask questions, suggest features or report a bug. Your feedback is always welcome!

Requirements

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or later is required to run muCommander. Java 1.7 is recommended, you can download it at http://java.com.

Mac OS X users: your favorite OS already comes with a Java runtime so you're good to go!

If you're having problems launching muCommander, make sure the JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the directory where your Java runtime is installed.

What's new since v0.9 ?

New features:

Lock tab capability, which prevents closing/moving the tab or changing its location.
New quick list that presents open tabs in the current panel, mapped onto Alt+6 by default (ticket #450).
Added the option to set fixed title for tab.
Added the following actions: add tab, duplicate tab, clone tab to other panel.
Added support for VMware vSphere virtual machines file system, contributed by Yuval Kohavi yuval.kohavi@intigua.com

Improvements:

The state of all windows from last run is now restored on startup.
Added the ability to copy the base name of files (ticket #462), contributed by Chen Rozenes.
User can choose to always display tabs headers from preferences dialog (even when the panel contains single tab).
Add the application name to window title on all OSs except Mac OS X (ticket #501).
The visited locations history is now saved per-tab.
The recently visited locations quick list now presents the visited locations on all tabs and windows.
The content of recently visited locations quick list is now restored from previous run on startup (ticket #471).
Added fullscreen support for Mac OS X Lion (ticket #468).
Text file editor/viewer restore the full screen mode of last used (closed) editor/viewer on startup.
'Bonjour' support is now disabled by default on Mac OS (on fresh installation, i.e, with no previous preferences) to prevent firewall dialog which keeps popping up on startup (workaround for ticket #339).
Added 'ctrl+m' keystroke to toggle text file editor/viewer full screen mode.
Tab can be closed by clicking on its header with middle mouse button.
Assign 'ctrl+page_down' keystroke for switching to next tab, and 'ctrl+page_up' for switching to previous tab (the keystrokes that were previously assigned to those actions remain as alternative keystrokes).
Improved names and descriptions presented for tab-related actions.
Added new category of actions in the 'shortcuts dialog' for tab-related actions.
Changed tab's not-fixed-title to be in the pattern ':'
Show backward/forward locations list when pressing with right click on the back/forward buttons in the toolbar instead of trigger back/forward actions
Keyboard shortcuts can now be set for commands defined at commands.xml (ticket #456), contributed by Jarek Czekalski.
Show empty name in the make file/directory dialog when it is opened (ticket #512), contributed by hclsiva.
Mac OS X: enabled high-resolution rendering on Retina displays (ticket #518), contributed Alexey Lysiuk.
Added Windows 8 and Mac OS X 10.8 to the OS versions.
System files can now be filtered also on windows, contributed by Markus Bullmann.

Localization:

Turkish translation has been updated.

Bug fixes:

Prevent deadlock which caused the application to freeze while switching tabs on MAC OS.
Recycle Bin is now working on Windows 64-bit with a 64-bit Java runtime (ticket #234).
Key combinations that contain the TAB key can be set as shortcuts (ticket #465).
Fix installation via software center on Ubuntu.
Symbolic links cannot be opened (ticket #467).
Encoding of text file is changed after being modified by the viewer/editor (ticket #438).
Cannot connect to some FTP/SFTP bookmarks if there are more than 4 of them (ticket #525), contributed by Ondrej Dusek.
Quick lists on the right panel sometimes not being focused (ticket #552), contributed by Jarek Czekalski.

Known issues:

Some translations may not be up-to-date. Refer to http://trac.mucommander.com/wiki/Translations for more information.
Mac OS X: "Do you want the application "muCommander.app" to accept incoming network connections?" dialog keeps popping up on startup even if the dialog has been previously accepted (ticket #339), when 'Bonjour' support is enabled.
Executable permissions on local files are not properly preserved when running a unix-based OS with Java 1.5.
SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
Mac OS X: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server (see ticket #76).
Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
Windows Vista/7: "java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: recv failed" error can appear when trying to access FTP sites. This seems to be a Windows firewall problem, with a possible workaround: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7077696
Unpacking files from 7z archive files can be slow.

License

muCommander is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to the 'license.txt' file bundled with muCommander.

muCommander uses the following great third party works :

the Gradle library released under the Apache License. Gradle can be found at http:/gradle.org .
Apache Commons libraries released under the Apache License. Apache Commons can be found at http://commons.apache.org .
Apache Hadoop released under the Apache License. Apache Hadoop can be found at http://hadoop.apache.org .
the Furbelow library released under the GNU LGPL. Furbelow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/furbelow .
the ICU4J library released under the ICU License. the ICU project can be found at http://icu-project.org .
the J2SSH library released under the GNU LGPL. J2SSH can be found at http://www.sshtools.com .
the J7Zip library released under the GNU LGPL. J7Zip can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/ .
the jCIFS library released under the GNU LGPL. jCIFS can be found at http://jcifs.samba.org .
the JetS3t library released under the Apache License. JetS3t can be found at http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html .
the JmDNS library released under the GNU LGPL. JmDNS can be found at http://jmdns.sourceforge.net .
the JNA library released under the GNU LGPL. JmDNS can be found at http://jna.dev.java.net .
the JUnRar library released as Freeware. JUnRar can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-unrar .
the Yanfs library released under the BSD license. Yanfs can be found at http://yanfs.dev.java.net .
Icons by Mark James released under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Mark James can be found at http://famfamfam.com .

Credits

Core developers:

Maxence Bernard
Nicolas Rinaudo
Arik Hadas
Mariusz Jakubowski

Contributors:

Ivan Baidakov
Vassil Dichev
Karel Klic
David Kovar
Joshua Lebo
LeO
Xavier Martin
Alejandro Scandroli
Alexander Yerenkow
Johann Schmitz

Translators:

Frank Berger and Tony Klüver (German)
Marcos Cobeña and Xavi Miró (Spanish)
Jaromír Mára and Peter Vasko (Czech)
Kent Hsu (Traditional Chinese)
Jioh L. Jung (Korean)
Andrzej Kosiński (Polish)
György Varga and Tamás Balogh-Walder (Hungarian)
4X_Pro and Evgeny Morozov (Russian)
whiteriver and Woodie (Simplified Chinese)
Joze Kovacic (Slovenian)
Catalin Hritcu (Romanian)
Roberto Angeletti (Italian)
Cristiano Duarte (Brazilian Portuguese)
Pieter Kristensen (Dutch)
Ján Ľudvík (Slovak)
Jonathan Murphy (British English)
Nardog (Japanese)
Jakob Ekström (Swedish)
Jeppe Toustrup (Danish)
Mykola Bilovus (Ukrainian)
ChArLoK_16 (Arabic)
vboo (Belarusian)
Ingrid Amundsen (Norwegian)
Emre Aytaç (Turkish)
Jordi Plantalech (Catalan)

Special thanks:

Semyon Filippov (muCommander icon)
Stefano Perelli (former muCommander icon)

Many thanks to all of you who suggested new features, reported bugs, sent warm emails or generously donated to the project !

Command Line Interface

muCommander comes with a few command line switches. The following options are available: -a FILE, --assoc FILE Load associations from FILE. -b FILE, --bookmarks FILE Load bookmarks from FILE. -c FILE, --configuration FILE Load configuration from FILE -C FILE, --commandbar FILE Load command bar from FILE. -e FOLDER, --extensions FOLDER Load extensions from FOLDER. -f FILE, --commands FILE Load custom commands from FILE. -i, --ignore-warnings Do not fail on warnings (default). -k FILE, --keymap FILE Load keymap from FILE -p FOLDER, --preferences FOLDER Store configuration files in FOLDER -S, --silent Do not print verbose error messages -s FILE, --shell-history FILE Load shell history from FILE -t FILE, --toolbar FILE Load toolbar from FILE -u FILE, --credentials FILE Load credentials from FILE -h, --help Print the help text and exit -v, --version Print the version and exit -V, --verbose Print verbose error messages (default) -w, --fail-on-warnings Quits when a warning is encountered during the boot process.

In addition to these, muCommander will interpret anything that comes after the last switch as a URI and load it in its windows. So for example:

mucommander -b ~/.bookmarks.xml ftp://user@myftp.com ~/dev http://slashdot.org

Will:

read bookmarks from ~/bookmarks.xml
load a connection to myftp.com in the left panel of the main window
load ~/dev in the right panel of the main window
open a second window and load http://slashdot.org in its left panel
load the default directory in the second window's fourth panel

Documentation

Documentation on how to use, customize and extend muCommander is available at: https://mucommander.atlassian.net/wiki/