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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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>Figure 1. GNU Midnight Commander - The GNOME File Manager</B
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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 directory 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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