fman help
A fast, keyboard-driven file manager for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Everything you need to get around fman — how its features work, and every default keyboard shortcut.
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Topics
Keyboard shortcuts
Every default key binding, filterable by platform.
Command palette
Run any command by name with fuzzy search, instead of hunting for a shortcut.
Windows network drives
Browsing UNC shares stays responsive, and how to get real file icons back.
Window title and bars
What sits at the top of the fman window — the two-pane path in the title, and how to take the bar away.
File viewers
Preview text, images and video inside the pane itself, without launching another app.
Themes
Switch between eleven bundled color themes, or write your own in one small JSON file.
Pane font size
Zoom both file panes in and out with Alt+Up / Alt+Down, and reset to the theme's size.
Show and hide columns
Hide the Size and Modified columns when you only care about file names.
Show only the active pane
Collapse the dual-pane layout to one full-width pane, and back again.
Release notes
Browse what changed in each fman release without leaving the app.
Archives
Browse and edit zip, 7z and tar files as if they were folders.
Single instance
Launching fman again reuses the window you already have — and how to turn that off.
Licensing
There is nothing to buy — every installation is activated, with no key or trial.
Fonts
Which typeface fman draws its UI in — what ships with it, what a theme may ask for, and how to add your own.
Icons
Which pictures the file list draws beside each file, how big, what color — and how to ship your own set.
Plugins
Install, list, remove and reload plugins — and what fman tells you when two of them collide.
Status bar
The one-line strip along the bottom — what it tells you, and how to switch it off.
The tutorial
The speech bubble that teaches GoTo, the command palette and the two panes — and how to run it again.
Go to
Jump a pane anywhere by typing a few letters, plus named commands for the folders that are awkward to type.
Rename
Rename inline in the file list, with a Retry that keeps the name you typed when the file is locked.
Window functions
Everything that changes the fman window itself — the bars, how see-through it is, and where it sits on screen.