rust-tfm

rust-tfm is a terminal file manager written in rust heavily inspired by lf and ranger, and also inspired by suckless software.

Features

• Asynchronous IO operations to avoid UI blocking
• Customizable keybindings(vi-style by default)
• Extendable and configurable with shell commands
• Using src/config.rs to config tfm, like dwm, st, and dmenu.

Non-Features

• Cross-platform, works on linux(tested on Arch and Fedora38) and maybe works on macOS(not tested).
• Tabs or windows (better handled by window manager or terminal multiplexer)

Installation

Currently, you can only install it by cloning this repository and building it on your own.

git clone https://github.com/jiaoshjie/rust-tfm.git

cd rust-tfm

cargo build --release
# or
cargo install --path .

The binary file is tfm not rust-tfm.

Config

Like suckless software, modify the src/config.rs and then rebuild it.

Usage

See src/config.rs or maybe all source files.

Dependencies(Optional)

You can modify script/preview and script/open files to change the behavior of preview and open as you like.

Preview

Below are some defalut script/preview dependencies.

1. lynx html files
2. bat color highlight for text files
3. chafa image files
4. mediainfo audio files
5. ffmpegthumbnailer video to image
6. atool zip files

Open

1. mpv video and audio files
2. sxiv image files and a rotdir script which can be found here.
3. display svg files
4. Set $EDITOR and $BROWSER env variables for text files and pdf files

License

MIT