Ranger

Created Thursday 12 January 2017

Ranger is a Vi like file manager - simply put, file manager from the terminal.

Installation

# The File Manager
$ pacman -S ranger

# My config also uses atool for file extraction/compression
$ pacman -S atool

# The sweet image previewer also needs w3w
$ pacman -S w3m

# Folder/file Search (custom command) also needs zfz
$ pacman -S zfz

Configuration

# Configuration files at Github
# Ranger reads its configuration files from ~/.config/ranger

# Three files worth looking at;

Default Configurations

# To get a copy of the default configuration files, run
$ ranger --copy-config=all

Themes

# You can find some sweet themes here http://dotshare.it/category/fms/ranger/
# To use a different theme than the default, first create a new subfolder
$ mkdir ~/.config/ranger/colorschemes

# Then add the colorscheme to a .py file (colorscheme.py ex)

# Look at the ClassName for the scheme you find
# And the name to the colorscheme variable in ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf

set colorscheme ColorScheme

Troubleshoot

# If you're experiencing problems with Ranger, it's probably caused by your personal configurations
# Run a clean instance (without the local ~/.config/ranger/* configurations)
$ ranger --clean

# If this solves the issue - you can ex. do the Copy Default Configurations from above -
# or sort your own out