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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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  1. …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)
  2. QDirStat is a Linux equivalent: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
  3. 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
  4. If you do like WinDirStat, there's a good Linux equivalent called QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
  5. …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
  6. For Linux there's QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
  7. qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by orena · 2022-08-07 · in SpaceMonger
  8. qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
    comment by mike_richards · 2022-08-06 · in SpaceMonger
  9. "QDirStat" https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
  10. …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
  11. …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
  12. …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