TotalFinder might be a bit more popular than fman. We know about 11 links to it since March 2021 and only 8 links to fman. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Shameless plug for my more modern alternative to Midnight Commander, https://fman.io. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Use a file browser that supports jumping to a folder by frecency (examples: z (shell extension) or my-dired-recent-dirs() in my dired or https://fman.io/ for users that prefer graphical UIs). You will find out that you will prefer jumping to navigation when you're familiar with the concept. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are great alternatives. I used Python and Qt to create my file manager [1]. It's a tool that needs to start quickly so Electron was not an option [2]. I open sourced my build system for creating cross-platform desktop apps with it in minutes at https://build-system.fman.io/. 1: https://fman.io 2: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-in-2016/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
And for the record, I think over the years I learned to like Finder... I guess I like the sheer simplicity (I use fman) and started to love it back in OS 9 and those lovable purple hues :P. Source: about 2 years ago
Fman by Matthew Herrmann https://fman.io From what I've gathered, success has been mixed. Duplicacy seems to be doing well based on forum activity and release history. Fman never made much money. If I recall correctly the Fman author was turned off by the number of people who criticized it for being fully open-source and wished he'd stuck with a closed-source full commercial model. I'd like for the open-source... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
TotalFinder is back. You need to disable SIP, but if you know what you are doing on your mac and don't open/download shady stuff, it should be fine. Source: about 1 year ago
And just since visor mode was mentioned as a requirement, I'd like to mention that I also run TotalFinder which—among many other things—extends Finder into running in visor mode as well. Source: about 1 year ago
Back in 2010 I upgrade from a MDD tower Powermac to a Mac Mini (CD tray) and I was so amazed that never bought another Mac tower again. I use CCC to clone my drive to the mini and so on. Now I have that Mac Mini 2012 just for audio production. I don’t even use it for internet or anything else. I have a crossover cable to my main Mac so I can manage files between them. There some apps that I use with that Mac that... Source: over 1 year ago
Totalfinder offers considerable improvements to the native finder app. If you are prepared to accept the install hacks. Source: over 1 year ago
There is a little confusion as most macOS users are not familiar with the difference between a window manager and a window tiling manager. There are a ton of great window manager (Magnet is still one of the common ones around which you brought up, but Mosaic is my favorite. Most window apps have all the same or similar features, but Mosaic includes some really advanced layout options that you can save and then... Source: over 1 year ago
Midnight Commander - GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...
Forklift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.
Vifm - Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings.
XtraFinder - Tabs & Dual Panel. • Arrange folders on top. • Cut & Paste. Copy queue. • Global hotkeys.
Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
Path Finder - The Finder, reinvented. Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X.