---- On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:19:35 -0700 Aere Greenway 
<a...@dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote ----




On 03/21/2018 11:11 AM, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

Is there a way to force PCManFM to always use "Sort Files > Ascending > 
By Name" ?

 

 I can set the sort order to Ascending > By Name, but it doesn't stay that 
way. Every once in a while I'll click on some folder and it changes back to 
Descending > By Modification Time. Very annoying. 

 

 I found on the web that this has been a long standing complaint about PCManFM. 

 

 I found this workaround:

 

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 You can use View > Sort Files to change the order in which PCManFM lists 
the files, but PCManFM won't remember that the next time you start it. To make 
it remember, go to Edit > Preferences and close. That will write your 
current sort_type and sort_by values into ~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf.

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 Found that here: http://tinyurl.com/phq7ska on the Arch Linux Wiki site. But 
that workaround doesn't always work.

 

 Is there a solution to this, or is this annoying problem by design? 

 

 

I'm using Lubuntu 17.10.1 64bit fully updated. 






Jerry:

If you choose the Folder View Mode of "Detailed List", you can control how the 
files are sorted by clicking on the heading (Name, Description, Size, or 
Modified) you want to sort by (and maybe a second time reverse the 
ascending/descending sort order).  

It seems to remember the specified sort-order from that point on, even if you 
use the "Icon View" folder view mode, where you can't control what to sort on 
using the method described in the above paragraph.  

-- Sincerely, Aere




Thanks Aere for the tip, I'll give it a try.



Cheers,

Jerry






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