Xfm (file manager)

This article is about the X11 file manager. For the KDE based Xandros file manager, see Xandros File Manager.

Xfm
Developer(s)	Simon Marlow, Albert Gräf, Till Straumann and others
Final release	1.4.3 [1] [2]   / 3 September 2001
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag/xfm/xfm.html

Xfm (X File Manager) is a graphical file manager for the X Window System.

The xfm file manager is written with classic Athena Widgets included with X11 distribution and it uses only the following X11 libraries:

• libx11 X11 client-side library
• libxmu6 X11 miscellaneous utility library
• X PixMap library
• X Toolkit Intrinsics library
• Xaw3d (Athena) widget set

Xfm was very popular in 1990s, when it won the title of "Favorite File Manager" in the Linux Journal 1997 Readers' Choice Awards and finished 2nd in 1998. ^[3]

References

1. "Xfm - The X File Manager". Archived from the original on 5 May 2018.
2. "Changelog". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
3. http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag/xfm/xfm.html

External links

• Free and open-source software portal

• Xfm Webpage
• Dalrymple, Robert (1995-07-01). "xfm 1.3". Linux Journal (15). Retrieved 2010-04-06.
• Harris, Stephen (2004-10-18). "Xandros is Managing Well, Thank You". ConsultingTimes . Retrieved 2015-12-18.
• Grant, Rickford (2005). Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users . No Starch Press. ISBN   1593270577 . Retrieved 2015-12-18. xfm linux.