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Tiling window manager users: What do you do when you see "drop a file here"? I usually just move on but I wanted to try this. I am staring at awesome right now trying to think-of/find a graphical file manager that does not have a thousand dependencies.


I split my screen between `nautilus` and `firefox` and drop the file from one to the other. What aspect particular to tiling window managers gives you difficulty?


Awesome/Xmonad/i3 do not come with a GUI file manager (for obvious reasons). I don't have gnome/kde/xfce installed and point and click file management is not going to be the straw that broke the camels back. The only thing that comes close is rkward, but it relies on kde-base which is the most obese of the three big environments.


If few dependencies are your thing, you could try rox? http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer

My package manager tells me it depends on sh, libsm and gtk2. That's not much.


I actually used to use roxterm3. When I mentioned dependencies I should have said "does not depend on kde-base|gnome-core|xfce.




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