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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.

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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The main window (icon view)

The main window (detailed view

The bookmark edit dialog

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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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• gigolo 0.6.0 released (2025/05/21 08:43)

  gigolo 0.6.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.6/gigolo-0.6.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.6/gigolo-0.6.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/0.6/gigolo-0.6.0.tar.xz?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 0.6.0 ======================= Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - Add suport to Meson - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - Translation Updates: Catalan, Hungarian, Occitan (post 1500), Russian, Slovak

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