The main window
The window has a menu bar at the top, two panels side by side, and the function key bar at the bottom.
Menus and header buttons
| Menu | Contains |
|---|---|
| File | New tab, New folder, Connect to server…, Connections, Disconnect, Close tab, Quit |
| Edit | Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all, Rename…, Delete, Delete permanently |
| View | List view, Grid view, Favorites, Settings |
| Help | Help (F1), About 2fip |
Next to the menus are three buttons: Refresh (Ctrl+R, re-reads the folders of both panels), Find files (Ctrl+F) and Connections (saved and open server connections).
The two panels
One panel is active: its frame is drawn in the accent color, and the keyboard and most commands act on it. Click a panel, or press Tab, to make the other one active. Copy (F5) and Move (F6) send the active panel’s selection to the other panel’s folder.
Each panel has, from top to bottom:
- Tabs. See Tabs below.
- Navigation: Back (Alt+←), Forward (Alt+→), [..] to go up to the parent folder (Backspace), + for a new tab, and the path bar.
- The file list, in list or grid view.
- The status line: how many items the folder has, or how many are selected and their total size.
The path bar
The path bar shows the folder as buttons, one per level: click one to go
there. For a server it starts with the server’s name, for example
me@example.com › home › me.
To type a path, click the pencil, click the empty space of the bar, or press
Ctrl+L. You can type an absolute path (/etc), one
relative to the current folder (docs/../src), your home (~ or
~/Downloads), or a server address (sftp://me@example.com/home/me). Typing
a file’s path opens its folder with the file selected. Esc cancels.
Tabs
- New tab: Ctrl+T, the + button, or a double click on the empty space beside the tabs. It opens on the current folder.
- Switch tabs: click one, or Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
- Close a tab: its ×, a middle click, or Ctrl+W. The last tab of a panel stays open.
- Copy a tab to the other panel: drag it onto the other panel. The copy opens with the same folder and view; the original stays.
2fip remembers the open tabs, their folders and the active panel, and restores them the next time it starts. (Tabs on a server come back at your home folder: connections are opened again by hand.)
List view and grid view
- List view (Ctrl+1): columns Name, Ext (optional, see Settings), Size and Modified. Click a column title to sort by it; click again to reverse the order. Folders are always listed first.
- Grid view (Ctrl+2): large icons or thumbnails.
Each tab keeps its own view.
The function key bar
The buttons at the bottom do the same as the keys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, F6 Move, F7 New folder, F8 Delete, F9 Terminal, Alt+F4 Exit.
Side panels
Settings (Ctrl+,), Favorites (Ctrl+D), Connections and About open on the right. While one is open it has the keyboard; Esc or its × closes it.