System Tools

Clex - Command line File Manager

To navigate through your folders and directories you can use cd on the command line or launch the 'Clex File Manager'. Using ncurses, clex is fast and easy to use and can be configured through the files ~/.clexrc and ~/.clexbm (bookmarks) or via the panel (ctrl -g). To start clex from a terminal or console:

 $ clex

emelFM2 - File Manager

EmelFM2 is a file manager providing many useful functions for daily tasks such as managing devices, opening a terminal in the current directory, drag and drop, creating directories, key bindings or managing file permissions. It contains bookmarks to allow you to browse faster, a text editor/viewer and much more. EmelFM2 can be launched with some command line options - you can specify the dustbin directory or set the start directory to display. For a full list of options: $ emelfm2 --help.

The context menu (right click on file/directory) makes it easy to unpack .taz .gz archives, compress and create archives or compare files. You can also create symbolic links via 'Create a link...'. Once learned, emelFM2 will allow you to work quickly and effectively.

Htop - View system processes

Htop is a system process viewer that displays cpu load, memory state (RAM) and swap used. It can also display the number of tasks, uptime and PIDs of active processes. Htop can be used with the keyboard in console mode, the mouse with a X terminal (xterm) and provides configuration options (F2). Htop can also kill processes and you can select items with the up/down arrows or a mouse click. Note htop also functions via SSH and can be used to monitor a remote server:

 $ htop

Mountbox - Mount devices

Mountbox is a small GTK+ application to quickly mount media such as a USB drive, hard drive or cdrom. Mountbox can be launched from a terminal or via the Tools menu (System Tools). Simply specify the peripheral (Device) and the mount point, ie the directory where you want to access the media in question. Typically a CD is mounted on /media/cdrom, a USB key on /media/flash and disk drives on the local machine on /mnt. Note the handbook also contains some information.

Gparted - Partition a hard drive

Gparted is a graphical application making it possible to manage the partitions of a local hard drive or USB media. It allows you to reformat, resize or check a partition on a hard drive and is the tool of choice if you need to prepare a partition to install SliTaz. Gparted supports proper GNU/Linux filesystems (ext2 and ext3) via mkfs and Parted automatically handles dependancies.

Support FAT and NTFS filesystems

To have the support of FAT16 or Windows FAT32 filesystems, you must install the package dosfstools. To enable read/write support for NTFS partitions, you need to install: fuse, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs.

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