Strata

Strata

Keyboard-first Linux file manager

WHO USES ITOmarchy and Arch + Hyprland users · Keyboard-first users · People working with photos, video and documents

Install to use

Keyboard-first Linux file manager: Miller columns, Ctrl+K search, RAW/PDF/video previews

★ 433▲ +4 / 7dlast 14 days · stars per dayhollow = no dataAs of 09-16 21:00 UTC

433 stars · checked on GitHub 09-15 19:35 UTC GitHub check 30 h late · incl. +2 observed via GH Archive since then · 7-day +4 observed via GH Archive (as of 09-16 21:00 UTC)

BACK CATALOG

Strata file manager window (dark theme): a sidebar with Home, Trash, Network and folders on the left, and three Miller columns opening home → Documents → strata-pdf-samples with three PDF files listed

TESIGN TAKE

A file manager riding the Omarchy wave, with a clear security posture: sandboxed preview parsers and build-provenance checks before install.

AT A GLANCE

WHY IT MATTERS

Spatial Miller-column navigation sits alongside Icons and List views, and Ctrl+K recursive search covers Home and all mounted local drives even while the tree is still being indexed. Previews for images, camera RAW, PDF, audio and video are produced by helpers isolated in a Bubblewrap sandbox with no network; plain-text and source previews stay in process, capped at 1 MiB. The installer verifies the SHA-256 digest and GitHub Actions build provenance before installing the binary, and on Omarchy it can replace the Nautilus shortcuts and even act as the system file chooser (portal).

BUILD FROM THIS

Beyond the six bundled themes you can write custom themes, and it follows the Omarchy Quattro theme live; with strata --install-portal you can make Strata the Open/Save chooser for portal-aware applications (apps that do not use the XDG Desktop Portal are unchanged).

WHO IT'S FOR

Omarchy and Arch + Hyprland users: a Nautilus replacement wired to Super+Shift+F
Keyboard-first users: Ctrl+K search, Ctrl+L path entry, Space to preview
People working with photos, video and documents: RAW/PDF/video previews and media properties (resolution, codecs)

START IN 5 MINUTES

# curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lgse/strata/main/install.sh | bash
# # Dependencies for a manual install on Arch / Omarchy
# sudo pacman -S --needed bubblewrap ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer fontconfig gstreamer gst-libav gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gtk4 gtksourceview5 gvfs poppler-glib
# strata                 # home directory
# strata ~/Documents     # a specific directory

CAVEATS

Licence: the repository LICENSE file and README say MIT, but the official homepage FAQ says GPL-3.0-or-later — which is correct: [확인 필요]. 64-bit Linux only (x86_64, aarch64); glibc 2.39+ and GTK 4.12+ required. Arch and Omarchy are the primary supported environments and Wayland the primary display stack. SMB and phone access need extra GVfs backends. The project started at the end of August 2026. Free, no paid tier.

RECEIPT

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