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Gigolo - remote filesystem management frontend

Introduction

Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount local and remote filesystems and manage bookmarks of such.

GVfs is an userspace virtual filesystem and the successor of GnomeVfs but doesn't depend on Gnome itself. It only requires a recent GLib version and a properly setup DBus system. Then it provides almost transparent access to remote resources like FTP or SFTP (SSH) connections, SMB (windows shares) or special resources like trash:, burn: or even accessing your digital photo camera.

For more information and additional help, please see the gigolo homepage.


Usage

You can start Gigolo in the following ways:

  • From the Desktop Environment menu:
  Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment:
  System --> Gigolo.
  • From the command line:
  To start Gigolo from a command line, type the following and press Return::
    $ gigolo
  • To get a list of available command line options, run::
    $ gigolo --help

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Screenshots

The main window (icon view)
The main window (icon view)

The main window (detailed view
The main window (detailed view)

The bookmark edit dialog
The bookmark edit dialog

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Dependencies

For compiling Gigolo, you will need the GTK (>= 2.12.0) libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header files, such as Pango, Cairo, Glib and ATK. All these files are available at http://www.gtk.org.

Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler as well as the intltool package.

  • GTK 2.12 or newer
  • GLib 2.16 or newer
  • GVfs (in any version)
  • intltool

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Latest Release

  • gigolo 0.5.3 released (2023/09/29 13:01)
    gigolo 0.5.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.5/gigolo-0.5.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.5/gigolo-0.5.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.5/gigolo-0.5.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is gigolo? =============== Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage bookmarks of such. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/start Release notes for 0.5.3 ======================= - Update copyright year and urls - Replace remaining stock icons - Replace (some) deprecated stock icons - Fix double free - Fix compiler warning -Wmaybe-uninitialized - Disable systray icon outside X11 - Detect DE using XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (Fixes #19) - Add icons at missing sizes, clean up SVG metadata - build: Use XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE - build: Fix autotools warnings - Update `.gitignore` - Rename "SSH" to "SSH / SFTP" - Fix intltool lock file issue during make distcheck - Update TODO - Refresh Glade file, drop unused tab labels (fixes #13) - move the logic setting GtkSpin port value to setup_for_type() - Use new icon in window titlebar - Fix compilation warnings - autoconf: Some updates - Only show an error dialog if the host field is visible/required - Remove capitalization from icon name - Update GenericName (#2) - Fix comment style. - Remove GSourceFunc casts - Update Makefile.am - Add gigolo.ui to POTFILES.in (Issue #6) - Added new icons following new style and reverse DNS format. - Add new README.md and update AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE - Add basic GitLab pipeline - Bug #16717: Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur

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