Last Updated on April 28, 2023
10. Insight
The Insight file manager is the largest utility offered by the Lumina Desktop. Lumina Desktop is designed to have a small footprint, giving your system the best performance possible. Lumina is based on using plugins. Sadly, it hasn’t had a new official release for a while.
With this software there’s basic file management, multiple tab support, custom bookmarks, multiple viewing and sorting options. There’s a built-in slideshow viewer for image images, as well as a built-in multimedia viewer. Both viewers are very basic in operation.
There’s also ZFS filesystem support for viewing/rolling back filesystem snapshots.
You’ll probably only want to use Insight if you’re using Lumina Desktop. Search is relegated to the Lumina Search graphical utility.
Website: github.com/lumina-desktop
License: 3-clause BSD license
11. Qtfm
Qtfm is another lightweight file manager. It has a reasonable range of features including tabs and Udisks support. There is a system tray daemon which helps usability.
It offers a powerful custom command system which helps workflow. There’s some custom actions already defined, such as compressing files, and extracting compressed files, and you can define your own. And custom keyboard shortcuts may be important to you depending on how you use your file manager.
Website: qtfm.eu
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
12. Yefm
Yefm is a very simple 2 pane file manager. It’s a fork of QtFm.
There’s some nice touches such as the colored text status and breadcrumb navigation which is better implemented than Qtfm. There’s a reasonable range of features including a bookmark manager, history, and a pretty competent mime editor.
This file manager looks like it’s been abandoned, with its GitHub repository indicating there’s been no active development of the project for the past 3 years.
Website: github.com/yede/yefm
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Next page: Page 5 – NewBreeze, theFile, Liri Files
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Krusader, Dolphin, PCManFM-Qt
Page 2 – Double Commander, Konqueror, Deepin File Manager
Page 3 – File Commander, Dfilemanager, ElokabFM
Page 4 – Insight, Qtfm, Yefm
Page 5 – NewBreeze, theFile, Liri Files
Page 6 – Memory comparison
Page 7 – Summary