Rodent Core is an open source, small, fast and powerful file management utility for all GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as some BSD distributions. It’s a file manager for the experienced Linux/UNIX user, running on top of the X11 Window System and supporting a wide range of desktop environments. Rodent is the successor of the deprecated Xffm file manager that was used on the Xfce desktop environment a few years back.
Features at a glance
Key features include support for multiple plugins, such as a Windows network plugin (xfsamba), a bookmarks plugin, fstab plugin, and others, wastes no space on function buttons and menus, and all of its functionality is available through keyboard actions or via a pop-up menu. The Rodent filemanager is the next step in the evolution of the Xffm application, which now features a threaded design optimized for multicore CPUs.
In addition to the above, the program features a diff viewer for files and folders, Samba navigator, FUSE (Filesystems In User Space) support, file shredding, file previews, a search tool, process control, file previews and many more attractive features that transform it into a drop-in replacement for the lightweight Thunar and PCManFM file managers.
Under the hood and availability
The Rodent Core project is distributed along with the Rodent applications project, which includes many other libraries and essential components. It is written in the C programming language and uses the GTK+ GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface.
Supported operating systems and requirements
At the moment, Rodent has been successfully tested with mainstream Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Fedora, and their derivatives. It requires no third-party applications than the ones mentioned above and runs successfully on almost any open-source desktop environment or window manager, such as Xfce, LXDE, Enlightenment, Openbox or Fluxbox.
What is new in this release:
- This version is code checked clean with coverity and deprecation free with gtk+-3.16.0 (but still compiles and works with gtk+-2.24).
What is new in version 5.3.16.0:
- This version is code checked clean with coverity and deprecation free with gtk+-3.16.0 (but still compiles and works with gtk+-2.24).
What is new in version 5.3.14.6:
- This release adds i3 window manager compatibility, including auto shifting of toolbar from vertical to horizontal and vice versa.
- Toolbar orientation can now be set in preferences dialog.
What is new in version 5.3.14.5:
- This release fixes the "posible" memory leak which I was hunting down. It was due to an out of place g_object_ref() call on some pixbufs. Memory consumption should now remain low. Compilation tested and running on gtk+-3.14.5.
What is new in version 5.3.12:
- Xffm (once known as XFce File Manager) has now entered a new step in its evolution. Gtk+-3.12 is now rid of the popup and tooltip mapping bug which affected certain fvwm configurations and is now considered the gtk version of choice for Rodent Applications.
- Rodent is now configured to use gtk3 by default with version gtk+-3.4.0, the minimum acceptable, but 3.12 is recommended. It is still possible to compile with gtk >= 2.12, but you must specify the option at the configure step and will miss out on some cool new features, like the pathbar.
- Within Rodent 5.3.12 you will find that the package manager plugin now supports Gentoo emerge. Furthermore, you will find that this plugin is defined by means of Xschema validated XML files, which not only allow easy action and option definitions, but also provides full help information on package actions and options via Rodent tooltips. Current supported package applications include pkg (FreeBSD), zypper (OpenSUSE), yum (CentOS) and emerge (Gentoo).
- The versioning nomenclature has also changed. The digits after the 5 reflect the Gtk+ version the programs, plugins and libraries have been compiled without use of any deprecated symbols or methods.
What is new in version 5.2.3:
- Much faster icon resolution
- Compatibility minimum with librfm-5.2.3
What is new in version 5.2.1:
- This version adds bug fixes to the run-program dialog.
What is new in version 5.2.0:
- This release closes all pending bugs and issues.
- Both OpenSUSE and CentOS spec files are produced on executing the configure script and both are lintian. Same goes for Ubuntu deb package. Gentoo ebuilds are also provided.
- Configurable keybindings
- Configurable tool buttons
- The following plugins are included with Rodent (all in a file hierarchy design):
- -- rodent-fstab (for mount/unmount physical devices)
- -- rodent-ps (to monitor and signal processes)
- -- rodent-dotdesktop (to access installed programs)
- -- rodent-fuse (to manage file systems in user space)
- -- rodent-ecryptfs (to manage encrypted file systems)
- -- rodent-ftp (to manage remote ftp file systems)
- -- rodent-sftp (to manage remote ssh file systems)
- -- rodent-obex (to manage remote bluetooth file systems)
- -- rodent-nfs (to manage remote nfs file systems)
- -- rodent-cifs (to manage remote cifs file systems)
- -- rodent-smb (to navigate Windows SMB network)
What is new in version 5.1.3:
- This version adds optimizations and bugfixes.
- It requires separate libraries for dbh, libtubo, and librfm.
- Source tarballs and OpenSUSE RPMs are available for this release.
What is new in version 5.1.2:
- OpenSUSE packages prepared in opensuse-12.3 for amd64 and i386 are now available for rodent-5.0.5.
What is new in version 5.1.0:
- Version update and instalation of rfm-simple-agent is now deprecated
- name sort fixed in rodent-ps and zombie cleanup * Name sorting now works correctly in rodent-ps. Icons have been modified since old icons would be misleading and tend to indicate that name sorting was not working. * Cleanup of rodent-anim was leaving a zombie. This is now fixed * (missing waitpid added).
- Informative message on no access for partitions Put in a stderr text when access R_OK|X_OK for mounted partition is not satisfied, instead of opening the location with no icon population. This is the same behaviour that a double click on a non mounted partition has.
- Remove the BUILD string. The BUILD string refers to subversion repository version, which was dropped when GIT was adopted for version control.
- Point POTFILES to moved find dialog files.
- Modifications to build from independent libtubo.
- Moved libtubo to independent git.
- Cleanups to find dialog
- Build from independent dbh. Makefiles modified to build from independent installed dbh library.
- Separate dbh from rodent package. Dbh is now in its own GIT tree. http://sf.net/projects/dbh
- Fix spec file
- configure and cxx icons * Switch build to stable/unstable since git does not use revision in sequential ordering. * Add c++src and c++hdr icon coloring and tags.
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