Worker file manager

Overview

Latest news: 2012-01-31: Worker 2.19.0 released.

Translators wanted! Worker is currently available in English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian and Latvian. Translators for other languages are welcome. Some existing translations need an update too. Read more for detailed information.

Worker is a file manager for the X Window System on UN*X. The directories and files are shown in two independent panels (similar to Midnight Commander). Worker is free software released under the GNU General Public License V2 or later. Features: low requirements (basically only the X11 libraries) fast and easy access to archives and remote sites Browse tar/tgz/tbz, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, ar (also supporting extfs: lha, zoo, rpm, iso9660, diff, arj, cpio, ...) in any combination (zip files in tar archives, rar archives in CD iso images,...). Access ftp sites without third party tools. many built-in functions like: copy, move, rename, delete files create directory create/change symlinks chmod, chown and many more... text viewer tabs file search flexible file type system with arbitrary file type actions for single file types or groups of types context menu to access file type actions bookmarks for frequently used directories labels can be assigned to entries to make it easier to find important files volume manager for mounting/unmounting devices (HAL and uDisks supported) quick access to already visited directories with breadcrumb navigation filter file view by string pattern or label assign any external command to buttons, hotkeys or filetypes (e.g. gimp, tar, diff, mount, ...) UTF8 support built-in configuration GUI

Worker was written by Ralf Hoffmann. The following people (and other) have helped developing Worker with translations, bug tests or other support. Thanks!

• Fred Woods for FreeBSD-Fixes and access to a FreeBSD-Box
• Rick Younie for the Debian maintaining
• Harlock also for his debian package
• rno for the french catalog/example config
• Martin Kaehmer
• Pawel Kaczor
• Daniel Polansky
• Jan Windischmann
• Donald J. Maddox
• Alan K. Jackson
• Paul May
• digs
• Thomas Bader
• Martin Curran
• Sylvain Cuaz for the "fink" package (for Mac OS X)
• Simon Dick for the FreeBSD package
• Götz Waschk, Lenny Cartier, Laurent Culioli for the Mandrake RPMs
• Ilya V. Yalovoy for the russian catalog
• Amedeo Brunetti and Giulio Canevari for italian catalog
• aaron for pattern rename script
• Tobias Toedter for Debian maintaining and "thousand separator from locale" patch
• Ingolf Schuchardt for access to an OpenBSD box
• Panayotis Papasotiriou for several document filetypes
• Victor Alcazar for spanish catalog
• Kamardine Mohamed for French catalog
• Arnold A.Perne for Dutch translation
• Stanislav Pavlica for Slovak translation
• Petr Korviny and erno for Czech translation
• Einars Sprugis for Latvian translation
• Pavlo Greenberg for Ukrainian translation and Russian translation
• Serg Markov for Russian translation