lgse / strata

# Strata
**Navigate every layer.** A fast, keyboard-first file manager for modern Linux desktops.
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Strata combines spatial Miller-column navigation with familiar Icons and List views, instant fuzzy filename search, rich previews, and native Linux desktop integration. It is designed for Omarchy and works on compatible GTK4 Linux environments.
## Contents
- Features
- Installation
 - Interactive installation
 - AI-assisted installation
 - Manual installation
- Usage and desktop integration
 - Desktop entry
 - Make Strata the Omarchy file manager
 - Unlock encrypted volumes on Omarchy
 - Network shares
- Custom actions and script authoring
- Theming
 - Follow Omarchy Quattro
 - Bundled themes
 - Custom themes
- Release channels
- Under the hood
- Technical specifications
- Development and documentation
- Contributors
- License
## Features
- **Three browser modes:** navigable Columns, an Icons grid, and a sortable List table.
- **Keyboard-first control:** directional-key movement, navigation history, location entry, pane filtering, fuzzy search, file operations, and quick previews. An optional footer and F1 shortcut reference help you learn each mode; the footer also shows clipboard status. See keyboard navigation and paste destinations. Optional 10xer mode hides window and pane chrome and uses Yazi-style keys.
- **Fast recursive search:** press Ctrl + K to find files and directories by name or path while the tree is still being indexed. Global search covers Home and all mounted local drives, regardless of the current folder. Hover the search field to see the included locations. The dialog warns when results are incomplete; raise or remove the indexing time and entry limits under **Settings → General → Search & filtering** for slow or network mounts. Folder-scoped filtering/search remains separate. URI-native remote shares are not yet included.
- **Rich previews and thumbnails:** native rendered Markdown and static HTML, plus bounded previews for text, source code, images, camera RAW, PDF, audio, and video, with native parser-backed formats isolated from the application. Audio opens in a now-playing view with artwork and a live spectrum; video gets technical badges, a keyframe storyboard while scrubbing, ambient light around the frame, silent autoplay that eases its sound in, and Enter hands the position to your default player. File Properties shows available media resolution, duration, bitrate, codecs, HDR, subtitle and chapter counts, and audio/video rates. RAW previews and Properties also show dimensions, camera, lens, focal length, shutter speed, ISO, and GPS coordinates, with `N/A` for unavailable values.
- **Shared storage properties:** volumes and mounted storage entries in Devices use the same Properties dialog for name, device, filesystem, mount status, and available capacity/usage. **Set label…** saves a display label only in Strata; it never changes the filesystem