Starting in two pane as default does not appear to be possible. See this
bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608431

I understand his thinking that there could be problems with that.
But with anything there could be problems. People set an option then not know
how to undo it. That happens all the time now with things in Ubuntu and Windows.

That said it would be nice to have a dual pane option. With that option you
could choose to open two pane as currently configured or as it was when Nautilus
was last closed.

I've looked into Nautilus and I can't find any way to make it startup
with 2 panes displayed. Having said that, I really hope one of the
brighter lights here can provee me wrong!

It is no big thing, hitting F3 to create the Extra Pane. I have gotten into
doing that daily. It makes it easier to copy from one HD to another physical HD
in my computer that I use as a 'data' backup. Like I said I now do this on a
daily bases.

That would be a easy, nice feature to have.

I find tabbed pages very useful and you aren't limited to just two
either so can work in several locations - copy/pasting between them.

The program I sent PCManFM has tabbed pages and drag and drop works just
fine as it does on exploer2

PCManFM does tabbed views but Nautilus has it built in anyway so why
install another program to do what can be done already ?

Because it loads and runs faster than nautilus and has changeable views
that what called for.

try PCManFM, it a file manager like xplorer2 that I use on Windows.

*http://tinyurl.com/3vr8c9s


It use twin panes like eplorer2.