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System Requirements
This document lists the system requirements for running Eagle Mode. Please read carefully. CPU: 2 GHz, 1 MB cache. Memory: 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap space (or more RAM). This is a recommendation. If you run Eagle Mode with less memory, then your first job after starting should be to navigate to the Preferences (somewhere in the upper left area of the control view) and lessen the value for Max Megabytes Per View. Disk: About 30 MB disk space for installation, 1 GB for temporary files at run-time. The disk should be quite fast and without frequent sleep states (notebook hard disks are not so suitable). Operating system: An up-to-date Linux is recommended. Other UNIX-like systems may also be suitable (tested were FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Cygwin and Mac OS X 10.5). Eagle Mode also runs on Windows ≥ 2000-SP2, but several features are not ported (UTF-8 encoding, time zones, audio/video player, postscript viewer, PDF viewer, SVG viewer, viewers that perform temporary conversion). Graphics: An accelerated graphics driver. On UNIX-like systems it should be an accelerated X-Server with a fast XShm extension. 3D acceleration is not needed. It is not recommended to use something like a 3D desktop or composite manager, because that could slow down Eagle Mode a lot. Mouse:
Screenshots
With three buttons (not emulated) and with a smooth-running wheel.
http://eaglemode.sou...creenshots.html
Video: http://eaglemode.sou....net/video.html
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Eagle Mode, Experimental File Manager, Viewer
The majority of file managers for the Windows operating system built up on the features that are offered by the system’s default file browser Windows Explorer. Eagle Mode is an experimental fie manager and viewer for Windows and Linux, that turns the concept upside down so to speak.
The file manager offers a top down look on all the files on the computer system with options to zoom in and out to view the files directly the file manager.
A basic example. Say you have a few text documents or images sitting in a folder. If you zoom in closely enough, you can read the texts or view the images without opening the files at all.
This viewing mode does not work for all file types on the system, but the most basic file types are all supported. This includes the majority of media files, plain text documents and even some games or applications.
The program interface needs some getting used to time, as it looks quite messy on first glance. It basically consists of a header with direct links to folders, the configuration and file management tools, and the main area that can be used to zoom in and out of folders and drives.
It is a good idea to run the application full screen as it might otherwise be difficulty to read the button texts in the program header.
The mouse wheel is used to zoom in and out of the file and folder structure. It feels a bit strange in the beginning that it is not possible to use the mouse to move the selection around, as it happens quite often that a file is not displayed centered on screen. The user guide has an answer for that. The developers have mapped the scrolling to the middle mouse button. Hold down the middle mouse button to move around.
A double-click on a file opens it in the default viewer on the system, which is handy for all unsupported files or if you need to edit the selected file.
New users should consider reading the install and start guide as well as the general user guide on the developer website at Sourceforge to get a deeper understanding of the program. Especially the core keyboard and mouse functions are explained in the guides.
The file manager can be downloaded from the project website over at Sourceforge. The program is compatible with all recent versions of Windows and various Linux distributions.
The majority of file managers for the Windows operating system built up on the features that are offered by the system’s default file browser Windows Explorer. Eagle Mode is an experimental fie manager and viewer for Windows and Linux, that turns the concept upside down so to speak.
The file manager offers a top down look on all the files on the computer system with options to zoom in and out to view the files directly the file manager.
A basic example. Say you have a few text documents or images sitting in a folder. If you zoom in closely enough, you can read the texts or view the images without opening the files at all.
This viewing mode does not work for all file types on the system, but the most basic file types are all supported. This includes the majority of media files, plain text documents and even some games or applications.
The program interface needs some getting used to time, as it looks quite messy on first glance. It basically consists of a header with direct links to folders, the configuration and file management tools, and the main area that can be used to zoom in and out of folders and drives.
It is a good idea to run the application full screen as it might otherwise be difficulty to read the button texts in the program header.
The mouse wheel is used to zoom in and out of the file and folder structure. It feels a bit strange in the beginning that it is not possible to use the mouse to move the selection around, as it happens quite often that a file is not displayed centered on screen. The user guide has an answer for that. The developers have mapped the scrolling to the middle mouse button. Hold down the middle mouse button to move around.
A double-click on a file opens it in the default viewer on the system, which is handy for all unsupported files or if you need to edit the selected file.
New users should consider reading the install and start guide as well as the general user guide on the developer website at Sourceforge to get a deeper understanding of the program. Especially the core keyboard and mouse functions are explained in the guides.
The file manager can be downloaded from the project website over at Sourceforge. The program is compatible with all recent versions of Windows and various Linux distributions.
Download
http://eaglemode.sou...t/download.html
Sourceforge info on Eaglemode (it says it will run on MacOSX also)
http://sourceforge.n...-on-eagle-mode/
I can't find any how tos though for MacOS installation and user experiences though. Maybe you Mac users here have better Mac google search terms than I do.
I know this is pretty geeky for some folks. Just posting for info. At least it has a .exe download for Windows. I think MacOS may have to use the .tar.bz2 compressed file. If I had a Mac. I would uncompress it and then open extracted folder and look for a run file in folder. I run static .tar.bz2 Seamonkey and Iron Browsers from a uncompressed folder like that in some of my Linux installs. Usually all the libraries needed to run a .tar.bz2 install are all included in the extracted folder.
