Install Krusader

To install Krusader on your system just use these commands in your terminal.

$ sudo apt-get install krusader

Krusader Features

• Multiple panels to quickly work with two or three directories at the same time.
• Much of the user interface is highly customizable allowing you to create a workspace you enjoy.
• Several keyboard shortcuts can be used and customized to speed up common daily tasks.
• The ability to pack or unpack archives and rename multiple files.
• An excellent development team which provides frequent updates.
• A high quality website with much useful information and effective documentation.

Krusader Interface

The standard Krusader user interface is only slightly more complicated than typical file managers. At the top of the Krusader window you will see a menu bar and a primary toolbar with many useful shortcuts. Below that you will see the left and right file display area where files and folders will be shown. Under the main display area you can open an optional terminal emulator.

At the bottom of the Krusader window you will see several buttons with shortcut keys displayed on them, these buttons and the corresponding shortcuts can be used to quickly complete several daily tasks. There is a small status bar below the bottom shortcut buttons, the status bar will change and display information based on what items you now have highlighted.

Krusader Toolbars

The Krusader toolbar can be moved or customized as you see fit, use the anchors near the edges of the toolbar. To access the toolbar options just right-click somewhere on the toolbar. If you want to you can disable the toolbar completely. More options can be found in the view menu, or by clicking on the configure toolbars button from the settings menu.

You can even drag and drop actions from the menu into the main toolbar. Under the primary toolbar there are location toolbars for each display panel. The location toolbars will tell you which folder that panel is now pointing to. You can also type locations into the location panel to quickly move to other folders.

Krusader Panels

The default Krusader interface has two panels that will display the contents of directories you have chosen. You can only work on one file panel at a time, the panel you currently have selected will always stay highlighted.

Two different viewing modes are available, detailed view or brief view. Detailed view will display file names, file sizes, creation date, and more. The brief file view will only display file names. The number of information columns for file information can also be adjusted. Each panel will also remember its own location history.

Terminal Emulator

From the view menu you can choose to display an optional command line below the main Krusader window. Options are available to display a command line, a terminal emulator, both, or none. Krusader can also display a previous command history. The terminal emulator has several key bindings and in general functions in much the same way standard terminal emulators do.

Krusader Homepage
Linux Desktop File Managers