RCFM

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About

RCFM, the remote-controlled filemanager allows you to navigate through your files with a nice themeable GUI, while using your remote control / wireless keyboard or mouse or your joystick and launch a customized action (e.g. play them with mplayer) on them by pressing a button.

Features

RCFM has support for input plugins, some are already available:

• LIRC: Use your infrared remote control to navigate (www.lirc.org)
• Mouse
• Keyboard
• Joysticks
• TCP: Control rcfm with telnet or from within your own program

These input plugins can be used simultaneously and you can write your own if you think some input device is missing (you just need to know how to program in C++, the interface is *very* simple).

RCFM has theme support which are also very easy to create, they are just .zip files which contain the graphics / font files and a 'theme.cfg' which describes the theme. You don't have to extract the zip-files yourself, rcfm does this for you. (Example: the aqua theme)
The standard themes were all done by me, so rcfm could look much better if someone else did that job ;) (Just look at the sample theme.cfg, it only costs a few minutes). RCFM can be easily configured, because the configuration file uses the same syntax as the theme.cfg does. (Example: The standard rcfm configuration file)
The most important line is this one:

file-types = [ "mplayer" -> { "mpg", "mpeg", "wmv", "asf", "mov", "avi", "rm", "ogm" },
               "play" -> { "mp3", "ogg" } ]

Here you see "mplayer" is linked to a lot of video file types. RCFM only shows files which are referenced by a program in the configuration file. If you press your "exec"-key while a ".avi"-file is chosen, mplayer will start playing this file.
You can also specify a few "directory aliases" which make navigating easier:

favorites =    [  "Root" -> "/",
                  "My videos" -> "/home/someguy/video",
                  "Play VCD" -> "!mplayer vcd://1" ]

These aliases are shown in the left half of the screen (see screenshots). It is allowed to add special options (indicated by a '!' in front), if you want to launch a program instead of opening a directory.

Screenshots

AQUA1
AQUA2

Contact

If you have bug reports, complaints, contributions, wishes or proposals, send me an email to ghost13 AT ghost13 DOT de

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Dependencies:

• libSDL
• libSDL_image
• libSDL_ttf
• libSGE
• libzipios++
• liblirc_client (required for using lirc input plugin)
• libboost-filesystem (required for compiling from source)

Newest version: 0.6

Download compiled version (linux/i386, glibc 2.3.2, libsdl 1.2.7, libzipios 0.1.5.9)
Download source (currently only tested on linux/i386)
The aqua theme file

There's a win32 sourcetree but it doesn't work yet because I didn't install all the libraries on windows (yet). If you are really interested in a win32 version and want to beta test it, send me an email to ghost13 AT ghost13 DOT de