Rox filer

Rox filler

Rox id the default antiX file manager It's very light weight, and also, by default, used to manage desktop icons (picture this: the icons you see on the rox-icewm desktop are a kind of transparent rox window, drawn above the desktop image) It looks a bit spartan, and as some peculiar defaults: - there is no "Bookmarks/Favourites" tab [that, as far as I know, it's impossible to change, but you can access bookmarks using an icon] - the size of the window changes to accommodate the files that are inside the folder you are in - a single left click launches files/apps

How to use Rox: Most of the more common changes to the way rox displays files/folders can be made from the bar on the top of it’s main window: You can select directly how to display files/folders by: right click empty space inside rox’s window > view > and select how to display information (you have to check a field to use reverse order- for example- newer files first)
 * Go to the home folder – Click the second icon, that looks like a little home.
 * add/access/manage favorites: click the third icon on rox’s bar.
 * Change the order in which the files/folder are displayed: click the icon with three vertical dots on the left side and a down arrow on the right side (this changes between display in alfabetical ordern / chronological order, etc… and in normal or reverse order)
 * Changing icon size: click the “plus” icon

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Changing Rox's default behaviour:

You can, without much difficulty use more "common" settings, to make Rox behave in a more conventional way [from info available in antixforum.com stick posts]:

-Launch rox file manager > right click any empty space inside it’s window > click “Options” >
 * If you don’t want the window to resize to fit only the current folder’s contents: In the first tab, check the first option (“Never automatically resize”)
 * if you don’t want to launch files with a single click: uncheck ” Single-click navigation”
 * If you want to see folders listed first, then files: check “Directories come first (for sort by name)”
 * If you want to see previews of image files on their icons: Click the “thumbnails” tab, to the left and make sure the first option is checked ( “Show image thumbnails”).