User Interface

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Using ForkLift will come very easily. If you are used to Finder, everything will look familiar, and all the extra functionality will work as you expect it.

Recent Switchers and enthusiasts of the Commander line of file managers should first change a commander style keybinding set, and turning on keyboard selection.

ForkLift's user interface has got highly modular by now. You can have it anyways, from a minimal, Single Pane look, to the pedal-to-the-metal 3 ton engineering monster it can become , depending on what you need at the moment.

[edit] Window controls

The fastest way to control the UI and toggle its modules is from the keyboard

Toggle Single/Dual Pane	alt-cmd-P
toggles Pane focus	tab
toggles the Sidebar	alt-cmd-S
toggles the Info Pane	alt-cmd-I
Opens a new window	cmd-N
Close window'	cmd-W

[edit] Advanced Options

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Open new windows Single/Double Pane	defines how new ForkLift windows look like by default. This is set at ForkLift > Preferences > General.
Starting Directory	defines the location where new windows and Tabs open by default.

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