Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2018 schrieb Charlie S: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 11:51:31 +0200 Siard sent: > > > But when I go Ctrl-O when in Kate or Lyx the order is reversed. > > > > I tried Kate. To reverse the order, click the 'Name' header. > > Note the small black triangle at the right side of the header > > pointing up or down. > > After contemplation, my reply is: > > Thank you Siard. > > It must be an idiosyncrasy of FVWM, that it doesn't show that little > spin control there? > > I just tried it again in both programs to be certain. There is nothing > there, and no matter what I point and click on, there is nothing that > will change the order of the directories and files. > > I have no idea what file manager they use. > > I have tried aptitude search file-manager and aptitude search > filemanager and apt policy filemanager and many others ways including > which filemanager and all different ways of speling. > > But I can't find what file managers are installed to see which one > might be being used and need configuring. All those requests come up > empty. > > I wonder how one discovers what file managers there are installed on > this system. I suppose have to name each one and see which are installed > that way. > > No joy yet. > > Thank you for your reply. > Charlie
On my system here is also a configuration option in the opening dialog of kate next to the field where the directory is shown. There, in a submenu, I can choose that directories be shown first. Also, with F12 as a hotkey, directories will be shown in a separate area of the open file dialog. Hope, this helps Stefan