Your real shell
Your $SHELL in a real terminal under the panels. Ctrl+O hides the panels; the panel follows the shell’s folder and back.
Free for individuals · macOS · Windows · Linux
Two panels.Your real shell.Everything is a plugin.
PejavaCommander is a keyboard-first two-panel file manager for the desktop. Your own shell lives under the panels, every key and color is yours to change, and new features arrive as plugins without a restart.
- Full and Brief listing modes
- Fixed-width columns and the Long mode with permissions
- Icons view and the Visual disk usage treemap
- System monitor: CPU, memory, network, processes
- Ctrl+O hides the panels: your shell is right there
- Settings: color palettes with a live preview
A classic, rebuilt for today
Fast keyboard workflow with two panels, and everything a modern desktop expects.
Archives as folders
Enter a zip, 7z, tar.*, rar, iso or deb and work inside it with F5–F8 like with any folder.
Remote in the panel
SFTP with your ~/.ssh/config, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, SMB and NFS. F4 edits a remote file and uploads it back.
See what takes space
Visual mode scans a folder and draws a shaded treemap. Double-click to zoom in.
Tabs and windows
Each tab has its own shell and panels. Drag a tab out of the window to make a new one.
Every key, every color
Rebind any shortcut. Create, edit, import and share color palettes with a live preview.
System monitor
An overlay with CPU, memory, network and processes, one key away.
Plugins, hot
JSON manifests, a UI part and an optional Node part. Plugins load and unload without a restart.
Install in a minute
Pick your system. Settings, palettes and keys live in your home folder, so reinstalling never loses them.
First steps
- Tab
- switch panel
- Ctrl+O
- hide panels, see your shell
- F5 / F6
- copy / move
- Ctrl+1…9
- listing modes, icons, preview, disk usage
- ⌘⇧P
- command palette
- ⌘⇧X
- plugin manager
- Open the downloaded
.dmgand drag PejavaCommander to Applications. - Start it from Launchpad or Spotlight (⌘ Space, type “Pejava”).
- The first time, macOS may say it cannot check the app for malicious software. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to PejavaCommander, then confirm. This is needed once.
- Grant Full Disk Access in System Settings → Privacy & Security if you want to browse protected folders.
- Or with Homebrew:
brew install --cask voy22/tap/pejava-commanderpicks the right build for your Mac and skips the “Open Anyway” step. Update withbrew upgrade --cask pejava-commander.
- Run
PejavaCommander-Setup-*.exe. It installs for the current user, no admin rights needed. - If SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway (the preview is not code-signed yet).
- Start PejavaCommander from the Start menu.
- Debian / Ubuntu:
sudo apt install ./PejavaCommander-*-amd64.deb, then start PejavaCommander from the applications menu. - Fedora / openSUSE:
sudo dnf install ./PejavaCommander-*-x86_64.rpm - AppImage (any distribution):
chmod +x PejavaCommander-*.AppImage, then run it. It needs FUSE 2: on Ubuntu 24.04sudo apt install libfuse2t64. If it does not start because of the sandbox, use the .deb or .rpm package.
Grows with plugins
Half of PejavaCommander is plugins already. Write your own panel, column, view or palette in plain JavaScript.
Free for individuals. Better with your support.
Any donation from $1 marks your account as a Supporter. It keeps development going and unlocks Supporter features as they arrive.