manycommander
A dual-pane file manager for the Omarchy terminal.
Two panels, the F-key verbs and a command line, in the Total Commander tradition.
manycommander wears the active Omarchy theme and changes with it. A copy or a move
never leaves a half-written file behind.
Documentation: manycommander.app -- install, launch, the
keymap, finding and renaming, archives, the quick view, SFTP, configuration, theming, and
what the file operations guarantee.
Install
Any Linux distribution with kernel 6.8 and glibc 2.34 or later, on x86-64, and a terminal
with truecolor. The kitty keyboard protocol, which Ghostty, foot, Alacritty and Kitty, the
terminals Omarchy ships, all speak, adds a few chords to the keymap.
Omarchy ships mise, which installs the latest release and checks
it against its checksum. omarchy update keeps it current.
mise use -g github:manyfold-dk/manycommander
Without mise, install a release by hand, or build from source with a stable Rust
toolchain: Install.
Launch
Bind it in ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua. focus = true brings a running window forward
instead of opening a second one.
o.bind("SUPER + E", "File manager (dual pane)", { tui = "manycommander", focus = true })
Press Super+E. The left panel opens in the working directory and the right one in your
home. After that, every start restores the last tabs. F1 shows the keymap.
From a terminal: manycommander restores the last session, manycommander ~/Downloads
sets the left panel, and a second argument sets the right one.
Launch options.
What it does
| |
|---|
| Live theme | Reads the active Omarchy palette and recolours when the theme changes. Nothing to configure. How theming works |
| F-keys | F3 view, F4 edit, F5 copy, F6 move, F7 mkdir, F8 trash. Marks, glob selection, quick search, tabs per panel and a shell command line (Ctrl+E) come with them. Keymap |
| Find and jump | Ctrl+D jumps to bookmarks and frequent directories, with zoxide's ranking merged in when it is installed; z does the same from the command line. Typing filters a panel, case-insensitively, and forgives a typo. Alt+F7 finds files by name and content into a results tab that every verb works on. Find and rename |
| Rename and compare | Ctrl+M renames many files with masks, a live preview and undo, and never overwrites. Shift+F2 marks what differs between the two panels. Alt+L creates links and Alt+A changes mode and time. |
| Copy and move | A copy is written under a temporary name and renamed into place, so a file you can see is complete. An overwrite replaces the old file atomically. Sparse files stay sparse, and hard links within the copied set stay linked. A move across filesystems deletes the source only after the copy is flushed, so a crash can leave a file in both places, never in neither. What each operation guarantees |
| Trash | F8 moves to the freedesktop.org trash, the same one Nautilus and gio use. It never copies across filesystems. Deleting for good is Shift+F8, and it waits until you type delete. Durability after a crash |
| Archives | Enter browses zip, tar, compressed tar (pacman's .pkg.tar.zst included) and 7z archives as read-only directories. F5 extracts with the copy's guarantees, and no member lands outside the destination. Archives |
| Quick view | Ctrl+Q shows the picture under the cursor next to the list, with kitty graphics, sixel or halfblocks, and an info card with the first lines for everything else. |
The optional config file is ~/.config/manycommander/config.toml. Every key is optional.
Configuration.
Development
Build with the latest stable Rust on Linux 6.8 or later: cargo run. Before you open a pull
request, read CONTRIBUTING.md: it covers the check script, the tests that
need btrfs or user namespaces, and the rules the file operations keep.
Each release on GitHub carries the x86-64 Linux tarball, with the licence texts of the crates
it is built from, its SHA-256 and a build provenance attestation. The release workflow also
builds and checks the AUR package manycommander-bin from contrib/aur/. The
package is not on the AUR yet: the AUR does not accept new accounts at the moment (October
2026), so the project has no account to publish it with.
Report a vulnerability through GitHub private vulnerability reporting.
See SECURITY.md.
License
manycommander is an independent project for Omarchy. It is licensed
under either of
at your option.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion
in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above,
without any additional terms or conditions.
