Xfm (file manager)

This article is about the X11 file manager. For the KDE based Xandros file manager, see Xandros File Manager.

Xfm (X File Manager) is a graphical file manager for the X Window System.

Xfm

Developer(s)	Simon Marlow, Albert Gräf, Till Straumann and others
Final release	1.4.3[1][2]  / 3 September 2001
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag/xfm/xfm.html

xfm filemanager is written with classic Athena Widgets included with X11 distribution and it uses only the following X11 libraries:

• libx11 X11 client-side library
• libxmu6 X11 miscellaneous utility library
• X PixMap library
• X Toolkit Intrinsics library
• Xaw3d (Athena) widget set

Xfm was very popular in 1990s, when it won the title of "Favorite File Manager" in the Linux Journal 1997 Readers' Choice Awards and finished 2nd in 1998.^[3]