Main Window (Commander Interface)

The screen of the interface has several components. Some of them are hidden by default. They are (from the top to the bottom):

• Main toolbar with the main menu.
• Local and remote panels, each having own toolbar, path display, directory tree (hidden by default) and status line.
• Command line.
• Background transfer queue list (hidden by default).
• Key bar.
• Status line.

You can show/hide most of these components from the Options menu or using the context menus.

By default file selection works very different to what you may be used to from other Windows applications. Differences are:

• Selection is not cleared when you click outside of the selected region or change the focused file.
• When selecting files using keyboard use Space or Insert key. Space just selects/unselects focused file. Insert beside the selection moves the focus to the next file. So you may select five files in a row by pressing Insert keys five times.
• Learn more file selection shortcuts.
• For other selection shortcuts see Mark menu.

You may wish to switch to standard Windows selection style.

While the Commander interface tries to preserve standard Windows keyboard shortcuts, where possible, some of them collide with the original shortcuts of Norton Commander. In such cases meaning from Norton Commander is preserved. Example is F5 key, which means “copy” in Norton Commander, but “refresh” in Windows.

See full list of keyboard shortcuts in Commander interface.