HOWTO add single-click support to PCMan File Manager

[mrjnoobles]

PCMan File Manager is a fast, lightweight file manager by Hong Jen Yee.

http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/

Have you ever wished you could use single-click to open items in PCMan?

I did, so I made this patch and now you can!

http://nuqlear.com/crap/prefdlg.png

This tutorial will show you how to patch PCMan 0.3.9.10 to support single-click opening of items.

Step 1

You will need the source for PCMan version 0.3.9.10, get it here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156956&package_id=265937&release_id=585699

Step 2

Extract the archive somewhere, it should extract into a folder named "pcmanfm-0.3.9.10".

Step 3

Download my patch here:

http://nuqlear.com/crap/pcmanpatch.zip

Step 4

Extract the patch into your "pcmanfm-0.3.9.10" folder.

If it asks if you want to overwrite existing files say yes.

Step 5

Prerequisites for compiling PCMan: (taken from the PCMan site)

automake
libgtk2.0-dev
libglib2.0-dev
libgamin-dev
libstartup-notification0-dev

If you are unsure if you have these packages try to install them using 'sudo apt-get install'.

For example, if you wanted to install libgtk2.0-dev you would enter the following into the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

Step 6

Open up a terminal and navigate to the "pcmanfm-0.3.9.10" folder, then enter the following:

./configure
make
sudo make install

To uninstall PCMan:

Open up a terminal and navigate to the "pcmanfm-0.3.9.10" folder, then enter the following:

sudo make uninstall

To un-patch PCMan:

First, uninstall PCMan using the previous instructions.

Delete the "pcmanfm-0.3.9.10" folder.

Extract the PCMan source.

Compile using the instructions from step 6.


Thanks for looking!

If you find any bugs etc please reply and let me know what's up.

[K.Mandla]

Interesting. I'm not a single-click fan, but it's always good to see someone add features to a great little file manager.

Did you submit your patch to PCMan?

[KongKNoob]

Great!

But, like mrjnoobles said, you should get this in to source code. The PCMan FM project invites everyone to participate, and it would be great if "one-click" was supported by default.

[TrD]

Thank you.

I think PCMan should make this an option on next versions.

[PCMan]

Thank you.

I think PCMan should make this an option on next versions.

Please don't mix this patch with the latest version of PCManFM.
Since PCManFM 0.4.6, single-click is already well-supported.