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====== Gigolo - remote filesystem management frontend ======

  * **[[#Usage|Usage]]**
  * **[[#Screenshots|Screenshots]]**
  * **[[#Dependencies|Dependencies]]**
  * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]**
  * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]**
  * **[[#Reporting Bugs|Reporting Bugs]]**

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===== 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 [[http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/|gigolo homepage]].

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===== 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 =====

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{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_iconview.png?600|The main window (icon view)}}
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<figure "The preference window (detailed view)">
{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_preferences.png?600|The main window (detailed view)}}
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<figure "The bookmark edit dialog">
{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_detailedview.png?600|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 =====
{{rss>https://archive.xfce.org/feeds/project/gigolo 1 date 2h}}

[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/-/blob/master/NEWS|Read the CHANGELOG]]

  * **[[https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/|Download current release]]** (link also contains older versions)

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===== Source Code Repository =====
[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/|]]

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===== Reporting Bugs =====
  * **[[:apps:gigolo:bugs|Reporting Bugs]]** -- Open bug reports and how to report new bugs


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