FAR Manager

far2l Linux fork of FAR Manager v2 ( Works also on macOS and BSD (but latter is not regularly tested) BETA VERSION. Use at your own risk! Plug-ins that are currently working: ADB (the external adb binary is required to work, see README) , Advanced compare, align, arclite (now as experimental version which partially more effective than multiarc; arclite disabled by default, to enable manually turn on F9- Options- Plugins configuration- ArcLite- [x] Enable Arclite plugin) , autowrap, Calculator, colorer, drawline, editcase, editorcomp, edsort, filecase, gitgutter, hexitor, ImageViewer, incsrch, inside, memo (see: README) , multiarc, NetRocks (SFTP/SCP/SHELL/FTP/FTPS/SMB/NFS/WebDAV/AWS S3), OpenWith, Python (optional scripting support, see readme and info) , SimpleIndent, tmppanel, truncate. [scr far2l]: ./far2l/DE/screenshots/far2l.png [scr netrocks]: ./far2l/DE/screenshots/far2l NetRocks.png [scr attribs]: ./far2l/DE/screenshots/far2l attribs several.png [scr editor]: ./far2l/DE/screenshots/far2l editor colorer.png Note : Far2l uses keyboard shortcuts in the tradition of the Far Manager for Windows, but some of them ( Alt + F1 , Alt + F2 , Alt + F7 , Ctrl +arrows, etc.) usually exclusively used in desktop environment GNOME, KDE, Xfce, macOS etc. and in terminal emulators. To work with these keys in far2l you need to release keyboard shortcuts globally in the environment settings (see 2326, 2731, under GNOME you can use dconf-editor org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings to view and change global keybindings) or use far2l lifehacks: Sticky controls via Ctrl + Space or Alt + Space or Exclusively handle hotkeys option in the Input settings (see details in built-in far2l help). TTY backends only – do not install X11 dependencies and dependencies used in the NetRocks plugin (Debian since far2l 2.6.5~ds-3 / Ubuntu 25.10+) Note : in some old Debian/Ubuntu you can obtain far2l packages corresponding to the latest distributions via backport mechanism (see info in Debian Backports and Ubuntu Backports). Apple requires registering as a developer (100$/year) to sign app binaries. If nobody will register till 2026-09-01 , cask will be removed from the homebrew. Additionally you can enable python support by adding [email protected] to the one of two above commands. just run far2l from ./install/far2l (use the full path to run from any location: /far2l/ build/install/far2l ) HINT: for Debian-alikes there is a checkinstall tool allowing ad-hoc packages creation and immediate installing. E.g. type sudo checkinstall , it will prompt for package name, enter "my far2l". Later "my far2l" can be uninstalled via sudo dpkg --purge my far2l even better create far2l 2.X.X ARCH.deb or ...tar.gz packages in build directory by running cmake --build . --target package command. To build without GUI WX backend (console version only): change -DUSEWX=yes to -DUSEWX=no ; also in this case you don't need to install libwxgtk -dev package. Experimental GUI SDL backend not compiled by default : set flag -DUSESDL=YES explicitly to compile both WX and SDL backends together or -DUSESDL=YES -DUSEWX=NO to compile only SDL. By default far2l uses pre-generated "hardcoded" UNICODE characters properties. But this can be changed by specifying -DICU MODE when configuring cmake: -DICU MODE=prebuilt - is a described above default implementation. Most dependency-less option. -DICU MODE=build - re-generate characters properties during build by using libicu available on build system, but it still not required to be present on target. -DICU MODE=runtime - obtain properties at runtime (that can be bit slower) using libicu that required to be present on target system. To build with Python plugin: add argument -DPYTHON=yes but you must have installed additional packages within yours system: python3-dev and python3-cffi . To control how RAR archives will be handled in multiarc: -DUNRAR=bundled (default) use bundled sources found in multiarc/src/formats/rar/unrar -DUNRAR=lib us