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+Episode: 233
+Title: HPR0233: rox-filer
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0233/hpr0233.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-07 14:31:41
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+Hey it's Deepi and welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
+Today I will be giving you a short review of Rocks Filer.
+This review is a part of the Lightweight Application series I'm doing.
+And Rocks Filer is a lightweight file manager for the X-Windows system on Linux.
+Rocks is interesting for its lack of dependencies.
+It depends only on the C libraries.
+And so instead of having to install Dolphin or Conqueror for the KDE system,
+instead of having to install Nautilus for the GNOME system,
+you can instead if you want to have a lightweight system, use Rocks Filer,
+apt-get install Rocks-Filer.
+And if you ever installed, if you ever built other lightweight systems,
+you can know that once you install the graphical file manager,
+that it adds a certain weight, there's always huge, huge dependencies
+to installing something like Nautilus or Conqueror.
+And I assume I haven't used Dolphin yet, but I assume the same will apply to Dolphin,
+whereas as Rocks Filer, it just kicks off and just needs the C library.
+Now, the interesting thing about Rocks Filer is that where is its flexibility?
+You can run Rocks Filer by kicking it off in an X-Term window,
+and it'll come up as an application,
+and it'll be a standard application with your maximize, close, resize ability of a regular window,
+and inside that it's a graphical file manager.
+And you can kick it off twice, and if you want to do drag and drop copying,
+deleting any of that stuff, it's just like a regular file manager.
+You would mouse over a file, do a right click, and context menus come up.
+You can open things up in different ways, open as a default.
+Open as a text file if you need to.
+You can associate run actions, what applications you need to do certain things.
+I'm going to just quickly do things.
+I just want to get across the point that you have full features
+without all the dependencies.
+Now, when I say flexibility, again, back to flexibility of Rocks,
+you can just put a command in your favorite menu system,
+and kick off Rocks Filer.
+I can application use it as a temporary file manager if you want.
+However, you can also kick off Rocks and have Rocks take over your desktop.
+And with command line switches, you can specify options for a desktop,
+like whether or not to have a taskbar or not,
+whether or not to have a toolbar or not.
+And there are add-on packages, like you can get out a trash icon program
+if you want to have the trash thing on your desktop, and you can have Rocks take over.
+And when you take over your desktop, some people say, well, what about wallpaper?
+Well, wallpaper setting is interesting, instead of,
+my other favorite window manager, which is iStwM,
+you have to go into a configuration file and specify a path and file name for your wallpaper.
+With Rocks, you just have drag and drop.
+Not only can it act as your desktop manager,
+but since the desktop manager is activated as a command line,
+with the command line argument, you can have multiple settings,
+just by changing what file it saves it all to.
+For instance, to kick off Rocks filer,
+to take over the desktop, you use Rocks space,
+pinboard, the space dash dash pinboard,
+and you put equal and you name a file.
+And it will save all the settings for that.
+You can actually have multiple profiles operating under Rocks,
+just by changing the command line.
+And once you can change in the command line, you can modify your favorite menu application
+by giving it many options to kick off Rocks in different ways,
+whatever way you need to kick it off.
+So that's one feature I really like, is that it's both
+a desktop manager replacement in a way,
+and I say it in a way because you probably still run a window manager.
+And yet, you can also kick it off as an application.
+That's very nice.
+Now, if you happen to be a fan of GNOME, or KDE, or ISWM,
+and you want to use Rocks also,
+it also installs an HTMLized help file,
+manual page, whatever you want to call it,
+into user share doc, Rocks filer.
+You can also get that online.
+That man page will list, it's very well written,
+it lists for each of the major desktop environments,
+what you would do, what special custom settings work best with Rocks filer.
+So if you want to take over, you can do that.
+Rocks filer can be used, therefore, can work with GNOME,
+it can work with ISWM, it can work with XFCE,
+it can work with KDE, or it can stand alone,
+or it can just be an app.
+And I think that's really amazing, that it depends on how you want to use it,
+determines how it will actually behave.
+Now, when there's some nice features that it supports,
+and the feature support is very consistent.
+It's, of course, you get, you put your mouse into the window,
+when you kick it off, it's a false see home directory,
+but you can change that with the command line again, if you want.
+And then it's a left click,
+and your left click gives you ways of getting into the actual options of Rocks filer itself,
+ways of creating new directories,
+fast ways of navigating, like, you know,
+just the parent of the window you're in,
+just a new window of the parent again,
+or a new window of the same window you're in.
+So you can kick it off very easy,
+that's, of course, what you would expect, you know,
+the different ways of selecting things,
+select a file, clear selections, invert selections,
+all kinds of things, you can display things,
+all the things you would expect from a regular file manager,
+you can sort your displays,
+change the size of the icons or your displays,
+view the displays, whether where their file sizes,
+all that stuff you would normally expect.
+But there are a few features that I didn't expect that I really appreciated.
+One thing I appreciate was that there's a selection for window,
+if you go into there, it will allow you to kick off a bar,
+at the bottom of the window,
+where you can just enter shell commands
+as if you were in that directory.
+So you don't have to kick off a X-term window if you don't want to,
+and you're using Roxfile,
+you can just navigate to the directory you want to be in,
+and you have a quick command,
+you just choose that shell command thing,
+and you can type in the command,
+you won't see the normal output that comes,
+but the command will execute there.
+Now, should you want to actually have a next-term window,
+there is, of course, a store terminal here if you want.
+It's all up to you,
+and that's a very nice piece of flexibility to have.
+I use that quite frequently.
+So, if you want to check it out,
+Google for Roxfile.org or just try installing it.
+Like I said, it's an app.
+You don't have to use it once it's installing a system.
+You can do app to get,
+if your Linux distribution supports app,
+you can do app to get space install space,
+Roxfile.org.
+This is in most of your repositories for most of your distributions.
+As a matter of fact,
+this is the default window manager for Puppy Linux,
+which I've heard some criticism about,
+but I just find it interesting.
+And for those history buffs out there,
+Rox, of course, stands for something
+as all geeky things,
+like name things in acronyms.
+Rox stands for Risco S on X.
+So, I hope you enjoyed this small and short
+episode of Hack a Public Radio from the Deep Geek.
+Have a wonderful day.
+Thank you for listening to Hack a Public Radio.
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+Thanks for watching.
+Thanks for watching.