Features
a GUI file manager that lives in your terminal
Mouse-first
Click, rubber-band select, right-click context menus, inline rename — no memorizing a modal keymap to get things done. ctrl+click toggles, shift+click ranges.
Drag & drop
Move files between folders with ctrl+drag. Drag out of the terminal to other apps and drop files in — cross-app DnD via the kitty graphics protocol (OSC 72).
Desktop integration
GTK bookmarks, recently-used files, XDG trash with restore, system clipboard bridge with GUI apps, removable drives via udisksctl. Undo/redo for every operation.
Embedded terminal
Right-click empty space → Open Terminal Here runs your $SHELL in a pane at the current folder. Drop files onto the prompt to paste their paths.
Previews & thumbnails
Image and video thumbnails (kitty graphics), tree-sitter syntax-highlighted text previews, folder stats — with a disk-cached thumbnail pipeline so folder revisits are instant.
30+ themes
Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Rose Pine, Solarized… live-switchable in the settings menu, fully configurable via config.toml. Try them below.
Themes
32 bundled presets, switchable at runtime
click any theme to restyle this page — the same live palette swap ships inside tfm (esc → Settings → Theme).
Keys
muscle-memory bindings — every one remappable under [keys] in config.toml
| type anywhere | live search · enter opens first match |
| enter / f2 | open / rename |
| backspace | parent directory |
| esc | menu (settings, view mode, sort, …) |
| ctrl+q | quit |
| ctrl+z / ctrl+y | undo / redo |
| ctrl+x / c / v | cut / copy / paste |
| ctrl+a | select all |
| ctrl+t / w | new tab / close tab |
| ctrl+tab | next / previous tab |
| delete | trash (again in trash: permanent) |
| ctrl+click / shift+click | toggle / range select |
| plain drag | drag out of terminal (kitty) |
| ctrl+drag | move inside tfm |
| right-click | context menu |
| ctrl+h | toggle hidden files |
Config
~/.config/tfm/config.toml — invalid values fall back per-key, never fatal
# ~/.config/tfm/config.toml — see config.example.toml in the repo [ui] sidebar-width = 26 # 16..60 cells tile-width = 20 # 10..40 cells (grid view) tile-height = 5 # 3..10 cells preview-enabled = false # right-side preview pane view-mode = "grid" # "grid" tiles or "list" rows ui-style = "solid" # or "outline" — rounded borders restore-session = false # reopen last folder on launch transparent-bg = false # follow kitty background_opacity [theme] bg = "#1a1b26" # or pick a preset: esc → Settings → Theme accent = "#7aa2f7" [keys] quit = ["ctrl+q"] # every action remappable, several binds allowed