This is so weird to me.. just hover over a music file, and it starts playing... (Mint Mate)..
“This is so weird to me.. just hover over a music file, and it starts playing... (Mint Mate)..”
Ewww... If that’s the default someone really messed up. There must be a way to disable that behavior. (That’s not a bug, that’s a feature! LOL)
Look into the Krusader file manager — http://www.krusader.org/ . It is a two-column manager in the vein of the first generation file managers. It is VERY powerful. Krusader is a KDE app so installing it will also install quite a few KDE dependencies, but they will stay out of your way since you’re not using a KDE frontend. I love it, nothing comes close.
Stay away from “Gnome Commander” — I found it to be buggy and nearly lost some files copying from one directory to another. It also is less featured than Krusader.
Now, if you’re feeling like the 1980s and you want some DOS nostalgia, take a look at Midnight Commander (sudo apt-get install mc). Midnight Commander runs in the terminal. I don’t use it because I’m not sure there is an undo or a trash, but I might be wrong. Some truly hardcore users will run mc or Emac’s Dired file managers in a dedicated window in a multi-monitor AwesomeWM or Xmonad setup; that way their file manager is always available and uses minimal resources.
The good thing about any of these file managers is that none of them are going to start playing music just by hovering! :)