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QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author)

16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2016-01-28 · latest 2026-07-16

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    Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
    story by patonw · 2026-07-16 · 31 comments
  2. …box. Also, mouse hovers go a long way. Like, one just has to look at the qdirstat screenshot at https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat . On the bottom-right corner, there are visually distinct boxes of sub-boxes that guide the eye towards…
    comment by tuetuopay · 2025-12-30 · in Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
  3. QDirStat is a Linux equivalent: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by smlavine · 2025-12-30 · in Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
  4. Linux and MacOS have QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by entropicdrifter · 2024-07-11 · in Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
  5. If you do like WinDirStat, there's a good Linux equivalent called QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by Gormo · 2024-07-11 · in Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
  6. …WinDirStat and was pleasantly surprised to learn there is also a Linux variant that is really good. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by 0969mime0969 · 2024-05-23 · in WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
  7. For Linux there's QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by bool3max · 2024-05-23 · in WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
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    QDirStat – Linux Directory Statistics
    story by mog_dev · 2024-05-23 · 1 comment
  9. qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by orena · 2022-08-07 · in SpaceMonger
  10. qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by mike_richards · 2022-08-06 · in SpaceMonger
  11. "QDirStat" https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by XzetaU8 · 2020-12-05 · in Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB
  12. …there's a more modern fork/recreation called qdirstat that doesn't need kde either called qdirstat. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by simcop2387 · 2020-09-27 · in Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
  13. …would be something like QDirStat/WinDirStat to get a recursive size count, with graphical display. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by SAI_Peregrinus · 2019-10-22 · in Google clamps down on free storage
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    QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics
    story by vinchuco · 2018-01-19 · 47 comments
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    QDirStat – Directory statistics (KDirStat without KDE from the original author)
    story by networked · 2016-07-11 · 0 comments
  16. …of it) for KDE. Baobab[2] is a similar tool for Gnome. [0] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ [1] https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat [2] http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/
    comment by phjesusthatguy3 · 2016-01-28 · in Chrome Cleanup Tool