I think pcmanfm might be the better choice here. Personally, I quite like Thunar, but it pulls in unnecessary XFCE dependencies, so pcmanfm is IMHO the more reasonable choice, because it has the smaller footprint. Related: https://git.devuan.org/Irrwahn/task-jwm-desktop/wikis/packages-list

(Re mc: Still my console based file manager of choice! :-)

I agree. So it'll be pcmanfm!

(Footnote: thunar seems to have problems to cooperate with dbus and consequentely to correctly open new devices; there was a long (and unsolved) thread about this in the manjaro forums. Confirmed by artoo, who is the brain behind openrc and openrc on arch/manjaro). May be this will change, when devuan abbandons udev and changes to vdev (?)

Recently, fsmithred in #devuan pointed out that spacefm (a fork of pcmanfm) is able to mount devices without any use of dbus/udev. It has a proper mounting tool (udevil). That got me interested and i tried it out a little bit. It's a nice filemanager, as slim as pcmanfm, but more configureable. May be you can have a look at it - if you do not know it already ... (?)

I tried it in my jwm setup and exception made for one feature it works equally ...

I found the equivalents in the onroot7 menu (Places in the tray):

spacefm ~/ = pcmanfm ~/

gksu spacefm / = gksu pcmanfm /

spacefm ; xdotool key super+F1 = pcmanfm menu://applications/

spacefm / /media = pcmanfm applications:///

spacefm ~/.local/share/Trash/files = pcmanfm T rash:///

That's a reasonable alternative. IIRC I tried a while ago and found it to do most of what I'd expect from a file manager.

One minor quibble: It pulls in an amazing amount of additional packages via the (hard) dependency onlibffmpegthumbnailer, but nothing's perfect.

That would be true for Thunar as well, IIRC ;)

Interestingly, Thunar only has a "Recommends" ontumbler. However: tumbler itself is a PITA.

As I said, nothing's perfect. :>

Spacefm!!! Below, i put the commands for onroot=7 in the menu config file of jwm.

Settings:

• Plugins: Attach files. Trash

• Command: Applications (in Devices), command: xdotool key super+F1 (=calls the rightclick rootmenu)

• Calls (for root:7 in JWM tray):

  • Home:spacefm ~/

  • Root:gksu spacefm /

  • Applications:spacefm ; xdotool key super+F1

  • Devices:spacefm / /media/

  • Trash:spacefm ~/.local/share/Trash/files

For me, that's it :)