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muCommander v0.8.4 (nightly)
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muCommander is a cross-platform file manager featuring a Norton Commander
style interface and running on any operating system with Java support
(Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...).
Please use the muCommander forums (http://www.mucommander.com/forums)
to post your questions, suggestions or bug reports.
Your feedback is important and always welcome!
Official website: http://www.mucommander.com
Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Maxence Bernard.
Requirements
------------
Java Runtime Environment 1.4.0 (JRE) or later is required to run
muCommander. JRE 1.6 is recommended, you can download it at http://java.com.
Mac OS X users: your favorite OS already comes with a Java runtime so you're
good to go!
If you're having problems launching muCommander, make sure the $JAVA_HOME
environment variable points to the directory where your Java runtime is
installed.
License
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muCommander is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Please refer to the 'license.txt' file bundled with muCommander.
muCommander uses the following great third party works :
- the Ant library released under the Apache License.
Ant can be found at http://ant.apache.org .
- the ICU4J library released under the ICU License.
the ICU project can be found at http://icu-project.org .
- the J2SSH library released under the GNU LGPL license.
J2SSH can be found at http://www.sshtools.com .
- the Jakarta Commons Net library released under the Apache License.
Jarkata Commons Net can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org .
- the jCIFS library released under the GNU LGPL license.
jCIFS can be found at http://jcifs.samba.org .
- the JmDNS library released under the GNU LGPL license.
JmDNS can be found at http://jmdns.sourceforge.net .
- the JNA library released under the GNU LGPL license.
JmDNS can be found at http://jna.dev.java.net .
- the JUnRar library released as Freeware.
JUnRar can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-unrar .
- the Yanfs library released under the BSD license.
Yanfs can be found at http://yanfs.dev.java.net .
- Icons by Mark James released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Mark James can be found at http://famfamfam.com .
- the Furbelow library released under the GNU LGPL license.
Furbelow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/furbelow .
Credits
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Core developers:
- Maxence Bernard
- Nicolas Rinaudo
- Arik Hadas
- Mariusz Jakubowski
Contributors:
- Ivan Baidakov
- Vassil Dichev
- Karel Klic
- David Kovar
- Joshua Lebo
- Xavier Martin
- Alejandro Scandroli
Translators:
- Tony Klüver and Frank Berger (German)
- Marcos Cobeña (Spanish)
- Peter Vasko and Jaromír Mára (Czech)
- Kent Hsu (Traditional Chinese)
- Jioh L. Jung (Korean)
- Andrzej Kosiński (Polish)
- Tamás Balogh-Walder and György Varga (Hungarian)
- 4X_Pro (Russian)
- Woodie (Simplified Chinese)
- Joze Kovacic (Slovenian)
- Catalin Hritcu (Romanian)
- Roberto Angeletti (Italian)
- Cristiano Duarte (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Pieter Kristensen (Dutch)
- Ján Ľudvík (Slovak)
- Jonathan Murphy (British English)
- Nardog (Japanese)
- Jakob Ekström (Swedish)
- Jeppe Toustrup (Danish)
- Mykola Bilovus (Ukrainian)
Special thanks:
- Semyon Filippov (muCommander icon)
- Stefano Perelli (former muCommander icon)
Many thanks to all of you who suggested new features, reported bugs, sent warm
emails or generously donated to the project !
What's new since v0.8.3 ?
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New features:
- Added native support for 7z archives.
Improvements:
- Tar/TGZ and Zip unpacking speed has been improved significantly (ticket #74).
- jCIFS library upgraded to version 1.3.8.
- SMB domain-based authentication is now supported.
- Added shortcuts to browse nearby SMB network shares.
- JNA library upgraded to version 3.0.9.
- Character encodings can be more easily selected (ticket #15).
- Added icon mappings for Office 2007 file extensions.
- 'Mark/Unmark files' is no longer case-sensitive by default.
- Mac OS X: muCommander can now be interacted with from the Finder (Open with)
or by dragging file/folders to the Dock icon (ticket #153).
- New and improved application icon, contributed by Semyon Filippov.
- Added a 'New window' item to the system tray menu.
- Improved support for NRG images ; audio tracks can now be dumped as WAV files.
Contributed by Xavier Martin.
- Improved the toolbar's behavior when the window is too small for all buttons
to be displayed (ticket #165). Contributed by Leo Welsch.
Localization:
-
Bug fixes:
- Zip entries using '\' as a path separator are now tolerated and handled
appropriately (ticket #98).
- Fixed image viewer not updating the zoom level in the window title
(ticket #102). Contributed by Joshua Lebo.
- Fixed date of Zip entries incorrectly displayed under certain conditions
(ticket #107). Contributed by Oliver Burgmaier.
- Fixed SMB connection issues (ticket #106).
- Fixed connection issues with FTP servers not supporting the SYST command ;
those are now considered as Unix servers (ticket #121).
- Fixed credentials ignored when setting a remote startup folder (ticket #108).
- Fixed unconsistent handling of destination when unpacking an archive
(ticket #93).
- Fixed the display of homonymous volumes in the drive popup button (ticket #138).
- Swap partitions declared in /etc/fstab are now properly handled (ticket #139).
Contributed by Johann Schmitz.
- Fixed issues with Look & Feel (ticket #145).
- Fixed slow downs affecting the drive popup button under Windows (ticket #122).
Contributed by Alexander Yerenkow.
- Fixed an exception occuring in the 'Run dialog' when pressing Enter
repeatedly (ticket #212).
- Fixed an issue with the panel separator being set incorrectly after a resize
of the main window (ticket #163).
- Improved the toolbar's behavior when the window is too small for all buttons
to be displayed (ticket #165). Contributed by Leo Welsch.
- Fixed flashing command windows under Windows 95/98/Me (ticket #63).
- The authentication dialog's login field is now prefilled with the current
user's name (ticket #185). Contributed by Leo Welsch.
- Fixed exceptions occurring while copying text to the clipboard from an external
application under certain conditions (ticket #164).
- Added support for forward slash-separated paths on backslash-separated OSes
(Windows, OS/2) (ticket #94).
Known issues:
- Some translations are not up-to-date. For more information, see:
http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=442 .
- RAR and SFTP support are only available under Java 1.5 or higher.
- Executable permissions are not preserved properly for local files prior to
Java 1.6.
- SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
- 'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not
pasted).
- Mac OS X: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
- Mac OS X: text fields don't work correctly when using a fractionally-scaled
font (known Java bug,
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2005/May/msg00670.html).
- Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password)
for the same server (see ticket #76).
- Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
Command Line Interface
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muCommander comes with a few command line switches.
The following options are available:
-a FILE, --assoc FILE Load associations from FILE.
-b FILE, --bookmarks FILE Load bookmarks from FILE.
-c FILE, --configuration FILE Load configuration from FILE
-C FILE, --commandbar FILE Load command bar from FILE
-e FOLDER, --extensions FOLDER Load extensions from FOLDER.
-f FILE, --commands FILE Load custom commands from FILE.
-i, --ignore-warnings Do not fail on warnings (default).
-k FILE, --keymap FILE Load keymap from FILE
-n, --no-debug Disable debug output to stdout
-d, --debug Enable debug output to stdout (default)
-p FOLDER, --preferences FOLDER Store configuration files in FOLDER
--no-splash Disable splashscreen on startup
--splash Enable splashscreen on startup (default)
-S, --silent Do not print verbose error messages
-s FILE, --shell-history FILE Load shell history from FILE
-t FILE, --toolbar FILE Load toolbar from FILE
-u FILE, --credentials FILE Load credentials from FILE
-h, --help Print the help text and exit
-v, --version Print the version and exit
-V, --verbose Print verbose error messages (default)
-w, --fail-on-warnings Quits when a warning is encountered during
the boot process.
In addition to these, muCommander will interpret anything that comes after the
last switch as a URI and load it in its windows.
So for example:
mucommander -b ~/.bookmarks.xml ftp://user@myftp.com ~/dev http://slashdot.org
Will:
- read bookmarks from ~/bookmarks.xml
- load a connection to myftp.com in the left panel of the main window
- load ~/dev in the right panel of the main window
- open a second window and load http://slashdot.org in its left panel
- load the default directory in the second window's fourth panel
Advanced configuration
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muCommander has some advanced configuration options which cannot (yet) be
accessed through the GUI.
After having booted the application for the first time, the following files will
be created in muCommander's preferences folder:
- action_keymap.xml (keyboard shortcuts description file).
- command_bar.xml (commandbar description file).
- toolbar.xml (toolbar description file).
Brave users can edit these XML files and tune muCommander to their own needs.
Here are a few hints on how to edit these files.
- action_keymap.xml
All customisable actions are listed in that file, using the following format:
It's probably safer not to mess around with the class argument, as this could
actually remove features from muCommander.
keystroke and alt_keystroke should be fairly safe explanatory. It's important to
note, however, that due to Java's capricious nature, the case is important.
CONTROL C will not be understood, and neither will control c.
- command_bar.xml
This file describes the content of your command bar (the bit will all the
buttons on the lower part of the window).
Each item in the file corresponds to a button in the bar. You can edit them, add
some or remove some.
The syntax is as follows:
Where:
- action is the main action executed by the button
- alt_action is the action executed by the button when the shift key is held
down
For a list of legal actions, please refer to action_keymap.xml
- toolbar.xml
This file controls the content of your toolbar. It works in the same way as
command_bar.xml, with two notable differences:
- you can use a element to add a separator in the toolbar
- alt_action is not available
- commands.xml
This file controls the various system commands that muCommander can call.
Documentation on how to customise those commands can be found here:
http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=420
- associations.xml
This file controls custom command / file associations.
Documentation on how to customise those associations can be found here:
http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=634