Sunflower

Spec sheet

Purpose

Sunflower is a small, customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux, intended to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Product

Sunflower is a small, highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux, intended to integrate with GNOME while also working in other environments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Supported platforms

linuxRead 24 Sep 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

License

The download page says Sunflower is released under the GNU General Public License.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Archive support

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Batch rename

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Community feedback

The project invites bug reports and testing, and says community feedback can help speed development.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Current listed version

The download page identifies version 0.5, build 63, as the version to download.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Download integrity

The download page publishes a GPG key identified as 4096R/83EFD5A0.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Download options

The download page lists Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, Mandriva, Gentoo, and a generic archive.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Downloads

The download page lists packages for Linux distributions and a generic archive, and identifies version 0.5 build 63 as the current download.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Dual-pane view

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Extensibility

The project says Sunflower is extensible with Python and GTK+.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

File emblems

It can visually mark files and directories with emblems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Keyboard use

The project describes Sunflower as optimized for keyboard users.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Known issue

A project news post reports problems with keyboard shortcuts and some copy-and-paste functionality in the then-current development version.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

License and integrity

The download page publishes a GPG key and says Sunflower is released under the GNU General Public License.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Maintainer

The download page credits Mladen Mijatov and contributors.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Multithreading

The product page lists full multithreading support.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Notable issue

The maker's news page reported keyboard shortcuts and some copy-and-paste functionality problems upstream during development of the GTK3 and Python3 version.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Sessions

Users can save sets of tabs as sessions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Support and feedback

The maker's news page invites users to send bug reports and says testing is needed for the new version.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Tabbed interface

It provides a tabbed interface for file operations.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Tabs

It has a tabbed interface for daily file operations.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Terminal

It provides command-line access through terminal tabs, VTE, or an external terminal.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sunflower-fm.org

Where Specifiction places it

• File Manager Software#89 of 1007.2