cfiles vs Dynamic File Manager
cfiles
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| Figure | cfiles | Dynamic File Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Terminal File Managers | 8.4 (#8) | 8.1 (#15) |
| Spec score · File managers | 7.9 (#18) | 7.5 (#24) |
| Design goal | The project aims to provide an interface like ranger while being lightweight, fast, and minimal. | The project aims for a simpler user interface and low memory footprint and CPU usage. |
| License | The software is licensed under the MIT License, which grants permission to use, copy, modify, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies subject to its terms. | The repository provides the software under the ISC License, which permits use, copying, modification, and distribution with or without a fee subject to its notice requirements. |
| Linux support | Yes | Yes |
| Navigation | It supports h, j, k, and l navigation keys and offers top, middle, bottom, and page scrolling shortcuts. | The program remembers the last selected file in each directory to help users return to previously visited paths. |
| Product | cfiles is a terminal file manager written in C with vim-like keybindings and the ncurses library. | Dynamic File Manager (dfm) is a simple ncurses based file manager inspired by ranger. |
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In their own words
cfiles
cfiles is a free terminal file manager written in C with ncurses and vim-like keybindings. It targets a ranger-like interface while remaining lightweight, fast and minimal, and runs on Linux and macOS. Navigation uses h, j, k and l, with shortcuts for top, middle, bottom and page scrolling. The f and F keys search with fzf, while S opens a shell in the current directory. File selections can be copied, moved, renamed, sent to trash or removed. Preview support covers images, media information, archives and PDFs through external dependencies. Users can save bookmarks and run executable scripts from the configured cfiles directory. Dependencies include ncursesw, cp and mv, fzf, w3mimgdisplay or Überzug, mediainfo, atool and pdftoppm. Überzug cannot preview MP3 album art and has nonfunctional arrow-key scrolling; w3mimgdisplay previews may disappear after terminal resizing or workspace changes. Trash deletion requires a specific directory, and configuration falls back to $HOME/.config when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.
Dynamic File Manager
Dynamic File Manager has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.