PCManFM is an extremely fast and lightweight GTK+ based file manager which features tabbed browsing and a user-friendly interface. To view icons on PCMan File Manager, include this line to your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0: gtk-icon-theme-name="Tango" pcmanfm warns by default when used by root: you can disable the warning passing a parameter to the build script, BEND_ME_OVER=kthxbai This requires libfm.