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>The Gnome File Manager</A
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>        GNOME includes a file manager that allows you to manipulate the files on
        your system in a comfortable, powerful, graphical environment. This File
        Manager is known as GMC for GNU Midnight Commander.  GMC is based on the
        Midnight Commander file manager which can be run in a terminal.
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>        Midnight Commander has long been known for its power and ease of
        use. GMC has taken the power and ease of use from MC and added the GNOME
        graphical frontend.
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        As mentioned in the previous chapter, the GNOME File Manager
        provides the desktop functionality for GNOME.  The GNOME File Manager
        also provides a place to manipulate files on your system by using the
        GNOME File Manager window.
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>        There are two main windows within the GNOME File Manager. On the left is
        the tree view, which represents all of the directories on your system by
        their hierarchical position. On the right is the directory window, which
        will show you the contents of the directory which you have selected in
        the tree view.
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>        To select a directory in the tree view simply use a single mouse
        click. This will change the main directory view, showing the files in
        the directory you have chosen. If there is a plus sign to the left of a
        directory name in the tree window, you may click on it to show
        subdirectories.  At this point the plus sign will have changed to a
        minus sign. If you click on the minus sign, the subdirectory once again
        becomes hidden in the tree view and the plus sign reappears.
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        The directry window has a few viewing options you may wish
        to take advantage of: the icon view and three list views: brief,
        detailed and custom.
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>        The Icon view is the default view and will display large icons for each
        file.  The Brief view shows the files and directories in a list. The
        Detailed view expands this list to include information about the
        files. The Custom view is a list view that allows you to select the
        information you want to view about files.
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>        In the Brief, Detailed, and Custom views if you click on one of the
        information titles on the top of the window it will sort the files
        according to that information. For example, if you want to find the
        largest files in the directory you can click on the Size title and the
        files will be sorted by size from largest to smallest. One more click on
        the Size title will change the sorting from smallest to largest.
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