Krusader is an advanced twin-panel file manager for KDE Plasma and other Unix-like desktop environments. Its commander-style interface is designed for efficient file management using either the keyboard or mouse.
The two panels can work with local files, archives and remote locations, while an integrated command line and terminal complement the graphical interface. Tabs, history, bookmarks and configurable keyboard shortcuts help with navigating large collections of files.
Krusader also includes tools for searching, comparing and synchronising directories, managing archives, calculating disk usage and performing queued file operations. Current releases use Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Twin-panel interface with tabs, history, bookmarks and strong keyboard-oriented operation.
- Integrated command line and optional terminal emulator which follows the active directory.
- Handles local files, mounted filesystems, archives and remote locations through KDE’s KIO framework.
- Remote file access includes SFTP, SCP, FTP, SMB, WebDAV and other protocols supported by KIO.
- Extensive archive handling allows browsing, creating, extracting and testing many common archive formats.
- Advanced search can inspect local and remote files as well as files stored inside archives.
- Directory synchronisation compares locations and selectively copies or removes files to bring them into sync.
- File and directory comparison tools include filtering and content comparison using external diff utilities.
- Queue manager handles copy and move jobs without requiring each operation to complete before another is prepared.
- Internal viewer and editor use KDE components to display and modify a wide variety of file types.
- Disk Usage tool visualises space consumed by files and directories, while Mount Manager provides access to mounted filesystems.
- Checksum creation and verification supports commonly used cryptographic and file-verification formats.
- User Actions and configurable menus allow scripts and external programs to be integrated into file-management workflows.
Website: krusader.org
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Developer: Krusader Krew
License: GNU General Public License v2.0 / v3.0
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