Detached panels and tabs
- Use each panel side in a separate full window.
- Detach an individual tab from its context menu or by dragging it outside the main window, keep it across sessions, and attach it again to either side.
Feature guide
Interface and panels
Customize a dual-pane workspace that scales across displays and adapts to tabs, metadata, tools, and independent windows.
Tabbed Panels
- Open multiple folders in each panel side and scroll an overflowing tab bar with the mouse wheel.
- Hold the right mouse button and use the wheel to switch tabs on one side.
- Tabs can be locked to protect their location and detached into independent windows.
Shared or separate history
- Choose whether panels and tabs share folder history or maintain it independently.
- Forward and backward folder history, including plug-in and extension locations, can be restored after restart.
Dark Mode
- Complete dark-mode color-scheme support across the main application, dialogs, viewers, and participating plug-ins.
DPI Awareness
- Sharper interface rendering on high-DPI and mixed-DPI Windows displays.
- Dialogs, controls, icons, and panel content scale consistently when moved between monitors with different scaling settings.
Configurable UI and menu fonts
- Configure fonts consistently for menus, dialogs, viewers, plug-in windows, and panel content.
Windows Explorer properties and columns
- Choose Explorer properties by category, reorder them, and persist them in Detailed view presets.
- Search and edit supported metadata, including tags, and sort by columns supplied by Windows, plug-ins, or Salamatrix extensions.
Tree View panel
- Use a docked or floating folder tree synchronized with the active disk panel.
- Based on changes contributed by fgodoy.
User Folders
- Open additional Windows user folders directly from Salamander.
Panel item information tooltips
- See a compact summary for a file or directory.
- Known file types include useful metadata such as image dimensions and color depth or audio duration and author.
Configurable Command Shell Application
- Select dynamically discovered Windows Terminal profiles or configure a custom shell and command line.
- Press
Shift+Num /to open the configured shell as administrator.
Sortable result windows
- Sort Find results, Registry Search results, and Batch Renamer previews in either direction by clicking a column header.
- Optionally mix files with directories or registry keys with values while sorting.