classeur classeur is a clean-room file manager for Linux and Windows, strongly inspired by File Pilot: tabs in panels, a command palette, GoTo, a flat search of every folder below, batch rename, undo, drag and drop. One small native program; a folder of 100 000 files lists without a wait.

Changelog

Every version of classeur: a fast file manager for Linux and Windows, newest first. The format is Keep a Changelog, the versions follow semantic versioning.

2 versions
0.2.02026-11-10release

Added

  • A key for every action: tabs by number (Alt+1 to Alt+9), the views (Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+4), the sorts (Ctrl+Alt+1 to Ctrl+Alt+4), the types (Ctrl+Shift+Y, files or folders alone), copy and move to the other panel (Shift+F5, Shift+F6), the names copied (Ctrl+Alt+C), the item's own folder in a search (Alt+O), the tabs closed around the shown one.
  • Layouts: the panels and their tabs saved by name (Ctrl+Alt+S) and opened again (Ctrl+Alt+L).
  • Tooltips: a tab's path, a row's whole name with its type, size and date, a crumb's path, a column's sort, a place's path, a volume's free space.
  • The Setup (classeur --setup, Ctrl+Shift+F12) and classeur install, uninstall, status: the launcher in the applications menu as a file manager, the icons, classeur on the PATH. A copy downloaded on Windows offers it at its start.
  • Releases: an archive for Linux and one for Windows on each version's GitHub release.

Changed

  • The interface knows no system: what differs between Linux and Windows is asked of src/fs and gui_toolkit (classeurtool check refuses anything else).
0.1.02026-11-10release

Added

  • Folders read on worker threads: a folder of 100 000 files lists and scrolls with no wait. The details view (name, date, type, folders, files, size), sorted naturally; File Pilot's zoom (Ctrl+wheel): names alone, names in columns, cards ever larger with thumbnails.
  • Tabs in panels side by side, the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) with every action and its keys, the crumbs, the path typed (Ctrl+L), GoTo (Ctrl+G) with the completion of paths, the recent folders, the bookmarks and the places.
  • The filter of a folder, fuzzy; the search of every folder below (Ctrl+Shift+F); the types' popup: files or folders alone, each extension with its count.
  • Copy, cut, paste, move to the other panel, the trash, delete for good, in a queue of jobs with their progress; a name taken asks what to do. Undo and redo (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y) of renames, new folders and files, copies, moves and the trash.
  • Rename in place (F2), batch rename (F2 on several items): a pattern with numbers, dates and ids, find and replace, the case, names from the clipboard.
  • Drag and drop: rows and cards out to other programs as files, files dropped from anywhere onto folders, lists, tabs and the sidebar; tabs dragged along their row, to another panel or to a new one. The rectangle selection.
  • The inspector (Space): a picture, a text, a folder's content beside the list.
  • The sidebar: recent folders, bookmarks (Ctrl+D), volumes with how full they are, the person's places.
  • The system's icons: the icon theme of the desktop on Linux, the shell's on Windows.
  • Folder measures: the folders shown are measured all the way down (their folders, files and bytes).
  • The folders shown are watched: a change made by any program shows at once.
  • Menus searched by typing, "Open with", a terminal here (F4), the tab's menu, the mouse's side buttons.
  • The session: the window, the panels and tabs, the bookmarks and the recent folders come back at the next start. One window per person: a second classeur <folder> opens a tab in it.
  • Options (Ctrl+,): the theme, the font size, hidden files, extensions, folders first, single click, the measures.