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What is it ?

X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander, originally developed by Maxim Baranov.
Xfe is developed since 2002 by Roland Baudin, a french Linux enthusiast.

Xfe aims to be the file manager of choice for all light thinking Unix addicts!

Why yet another file browser?

Yes, it's a good question. Why another file manager when many excellent choices exist already? Why not use a full-blown, animated, bells-and-whistles file manager like Konqueror, Nautilus or Rox?

The answer is quite simple: Although all these file managers are feature rich and cleverly designed, let's face it, they are huge! If you're a console addict, light desktop user or have an older system, resource hogging file managers just aren't the way to go. Especially since most file managers are Desktop dependent (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.), requiring you to load all kinds of unwanted bloat onto your system.

So why XFE? Xfe is small, very fast and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands. Personally, I use it in my everyday work and since I find it useful, I assume you will too!

Think light!

News

9/02/2013 - Version 1.34 released

This release improves the overall look and feel of the program. Scrollbar color can now be customized and a Clearlooks theme has been added. Many bugs and some regressions were fixed. Brazilian and czsech translations were also updated.

Many translations still need to be updated! Please send me your po files.

8/08/2012 - Version 1.33 released

This release adds the ability to change the date/time format in file and directory lists. An optional confirmation dialog is now displayed when the user opens an executable file. A dutch translation has been added and some minor bugs were fixed.

4/04/2012 - Version 1.32.5 released

This release fixes several minor bugs and updates the greek translation.

5/06/2011 - Version 1.32.4 released

This release fixes a memory leak and updates spanish, argentinien spanish and czesch translations.

23/03/2011 - Version 1.32.3 released

This release fixes several major bugs and updates german, brazilian portuguese and polish translations. Xfe now honors $XDG_DATA_HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variables for local trash and local config paths.