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Flea

Flea is a keyboard-first graphical file manager for Omarchy on Linux, built as a Quickshell front end over a Rust backend. It keeps the full directory in the backend while sending the interface only the rows that fit on screen; thumbnails are requested only for visible rows after the listing stops moving and are sandboxed with bubblewrap and prlimit. It provides list, Miller-columns, and thumbnail-grid views; previews for text, images, video, audio, PDFs, and archive contents; directory tabs; path navigation; filtering and subtree search; and an undo journal for operations such as copying, moving to trash, renaming, compression, extraction, and conversion.

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Overview

The application supports local and removable volumes, SMB, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, and NFS mounts through GIO, plus Taildrop sharing and Dropbox as a destination. It can register itself as Omarchy's default file manager and as the desktop file chooser through the XDG file-chooser portal. The repository documents installation through Omarchy's package manager or an AUR package, optional archive, image-conversion, and Taildrop dependencies, a newline-delimited JSON protocol between the UI and backend, and an MIT license.

What Flea is used for

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  • A keyboard-first Linux file manager designed for Omarchy. It uses a Rust backend and renders only visible rows and thumbnails, while providing multiple views, previews, tabs, remote mounts, and an undo journal.

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