Sunflower
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Sunflower, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Sunflower's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive support
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Batch rename
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Community feedback
- The project invites bug reports and testing, and says community feedback can help speed development.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Current listed version
- The download page identifies version 0.5, build 63, as the version to download.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Download integrity
- The download page publishes a GPG key identified as 4096R/83EFD5A0.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Download options
- The download page lists Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, Mandriva, Gentoo, and a generic archive.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- The download page lists packages for Linux distributions and a generic archive, and identifies version 0.5 build 63 as the current download.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dual-pane view
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Extensibility
- The project says Sunflower is extensible with Python and GTK+.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File emblems
- It can visually mark files and directories with emblems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Keyboard use
- The project describes Sunflower as optimized for keyboard users.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Known issue
- A project news post reports problems with keyboard shortcuts and some copy-and-paste functionality in the then-current development version.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The download page says Sunflower is released under the GNU General Public License.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License and integrity
- The download page publishes a GPG key and says Sunflower is released under the GNU General Public License.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The download page credits Mladen Mijatov and contributors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multithreading
- The product page lists full multithreading support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable issue
- The maker's news page reported keyboard shortcuts and some copy-and-paste functionality problems upstream during development of the GTK3 and Python3 version.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Sunflower is a small, highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux, intended to integrate with GNOME while also working in other environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Sunflower is a small, customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux, intended to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sessions
- Users can save sets of tabs as sessions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support and feedback
- The maker's news page invites users to send bug reports and says testing is needed for the new version.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Tabbed interface
- It provides a tabbed interface for file operations.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- linuxchecked 24 Sep 2026
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