How to Set Up and Configure LF (The Best Terminal File Manager)

dont work on fish ((

Iam a little lost on the installation part of this program. However great job explaining it usage

Top it's gg. Aa? what the gg means?

Thanks, It helps, what I was looking for.

I think I have tried most (if not all, including my own) file managers but I have never been totally happy with any. But, this 'lf' thingy looks promising. I should give it a try. Will I be happy? Or, will I be disappointed - again? In the latter case, I can go back to 'fr' (filerunner, an old program written in tcl/tk.) It has been one of my can't-live-without programs for a few decades now. Although far from ideal, it is still the only file manager I am reasonably happy with. Other essentials include nedit, python2, tgif, etc. all of which seem going extinct - like myself. (Sigh!)

Hi Eric and chance or thought on doing a video on .zshenv, .zshrc, .zlogin, .zprofile, .zlogout how to use them when to use and when not to use them?

ueberzug is not maintained 7 months ago maintainer has no interest in keeping it going.

LF github page does not have a dedicated icons link anymore.

if only image and video previewer would work in fish shell....😞

how to use it like file manager with tcsh, not like ls

How do you change default app when opening a file

I don't really understand the use case for terminal file managers outside of getting an easy way for previewing images, if I'm in the terminal it's way faster to move with ls cd + tools like fzf and zoxide, same for copying/pasting etc.

If I use a file manager, which is rare, it's usually for GUI functionalities like draging and droping into the browser.

Hi Eric i notice ueberzug is no longer maintained so not sure it would be safe to use moving forward. Do you know any better solutions ?
Also the Icon list has been removed from lf site. Its ok i got a list from your zshenv file :)

Awesome!!! Thank you! Btw, what's your color scheme for the terminal? Also the font please.....

can you please explain how to make all the gadgets work together within one lf session?

Great video. I like the look, feel and speed of this file manager.
If you have an audio, video or text file - how do you open them with your preferred apps or how would you change your preferred apps to run those files - using this file manager?
Also, how would one go about having a transparent back ground?

james burnham and julius evola 👀

nice

Thank you for sharing!

Great! very clear and very good configuration. Can you compress files?

damm ueberzug github repo is unvailable and on top of that I am windows user :(

Somebody pissed off the creator of ueberzug and he's chosen to archive the project and no longer maintain it. Use it while it works, or maintain it yourself, I guess ;[

Hey Eric! you know if there's chance for installing this for centos linux? i dont see on the package list :-(

Nice choice of atire :)

awesome thanks

Thank you! A big hug! Thanks for all your great educational videos!

Hi Eric!

I got a question. Is it plausible to use it when dealing with downloads and file uploads with firefox or any other browser?
When i have to upload a file to any site, it usually pulls up my default file manager (i'm currently running a openSUSE machine w/ KDE Plasma)

When I try to move from KDE to something more minimal, let's say i3 or bspwm, I'm forced to use whichever file manager Firefox is feeling like to pick. That's inconvenient, and to be fair Dolphin is great because it gives you the opportunity to filter, see previews, etc. Whereas the other graphical file managers are awful to work with.

However, if I can make Firefox to work with LF (or at least Ranger) I'll do the full change, since that's the only feature holding me back.

Thanks for your content!

lf-gadgets didn't work for me[must be outdated], I endup up using luke smiths dot files for lf and made lfub, cleaner, & scope executable and got it working. For sxiv to work in lf I had to grab ~/.local/bin/rotdir and ~/.config/sxiv/exec/key-handler and make them executable. I grabbed all of his ~/.zprofile ~/.config/shell & ~/.config/zsh dotfiles too cuz he uses a lot of variables and sourcing files/directories.

SOLD, looks absolutely awesome

Hey thanks for the video. Actually I need your help. I install LF and customize it the way I want but for example if i wanna play music or video when I click on it it's showing " Running shell exit status 127" what should I do? I am using MPV for both music and video.

Amazing! ) Thanks Eric )
Basically Ranger for Linux / Mac == LF for Win

Thanks a lot! You helped me getting started on lf!

Can you do a bulk rename like ranger?

Very good video. It helped me out! Thnx...

You can map delete this way:

map DD % gio trash "$f"

It will send the file to the ~/.local/share/Trash

New to LF. What are the tags for ? I presume to manipulate the tags fine with a custom command? In nvim tags allow you to jump to files. In LF I presume you create your own custom command with the file it creates.

how to cd the current directory with powershell (just like print 'S' with ranger)

Cant decide between this and Cfiles, both are so good

It's great!!
on WindowsPowerShell(WindowsOS)

previewing text.

Is the icon function unavailable now? Looked everywhere for this icons folder on the official GitHub repository, but it seems to be gone. Tried doing by myself too, with the icons I've found on reddit, but yet it did not work.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but a bunch of the later stuff in the video doesn't work for me (Pop!_OS 21.10 w/ KDE Plasma). Previews just don't work in the terminal at all even after installing all the prerequisites, I just get text saying "binary" of stuff that isn't a directory or text file, and the link you have to the icons is just gone.

Thank you! You helped me a lot to better understand how to use lf and how to get image previews with ueberzug! I hope you're doing well and that your channel grows much more!

You can put the two lines in lfrc-ueberzug in your lfrc, it works the same with less files! Thanks a lot for all the awesome videos, I'm loving my system more with every modification.

I am getting an error. lstat $PATH: no such file or directory. Help please!!

Thank you Eric! I’ve been looking for this information for a few weeks. This video was perfect 👍

Thank you again for the amazing video! Also I'm now learning VIM first time, because of your channel, lol)

Can you make a video, how to setup i3wm (or what tiling manager do you use)?

Lf is good. But I'm just love Vifm. It has a easy to setup preview. It also has a dual pane.

What's the difference between this and ranger?

Right here