Gigolo - remote filesystem management frontend
Introduction
Gigolo is a GUI frontend for managing connections to remote filesystems using
GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount local and remote filesystems and manage the bookmarks of these connections.
GVfs is a userspace virtual filesystem and the successor to GnomeVfs without a dependency on Gnome itself. It requires a recent GLib version and a properly setup
DBus system. It provides a relatively 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, see the gigolo homepage.
Usage
Gigolo can be started 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
Screenshots
| Gigolo Main Window (Icon View) |
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| Gigolo Preference Window (Detailed View) |
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| Gigolo Bookmark Edit Dialog Window |
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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.
Additionaly, a C compiler as well as the intltool package is required.
- GTK 2.12 or newer
- GLib 2.16 or newer
- GVfs (in any version)
- intltool
Latest Release
- gigolo 0.6.0 released (2025/05/21 08:43)
- Download current release (older versions of this component are also available here)
Source Code Repository
Reporting Bugs
- Reporting Bugs – List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports