Preface
Since Capivara is under heavy development and because I know that I have to change the implementation of various modules, I won’t write a very detailed tutorial.
I think the best tutorial is presenting an example. Let’s do it! After starting Capivara, this beautiful window is shown.
Some word on synchronization
I want to transfer some files via SFTP to my remote backup server. All connection types (local or remote) are implemented as plug-ins. Hence, I have to connect to my local file system as well. When I click the “Connect” button (the button with the plug icon), the connection dialog pops up.
To connect to your local hard disk we simple click the OK button and are in the game. The next step is to establish the connection to the remote server. I click the connect button on the right panel and choose protocol “SFTP”, enter host, user name and password. I could have also chosen to use a private/public key pair for authentication. To do that I would open the plugin options, enable the public key authentication and choose my key file. If the user does not pick a key file Capivara will try to find either id_dsa or id_rsa in directory .ssh.
Now I am connected to my remote server and I can start working as in a common two panel file manager. Features of the file browser
GUI options
Tabbed browsing Popup menu (click on right mouse button)
