I am not able to reproduce this in the currently supported lubuntu 15.04 or 14.04 and appears to have been fixed in at least pcmanfm 1.2 and higher.
** Changed in: pcmanfm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1192241 Title: Sorting out files by names/size/... doesn't work when launched from command line To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1192241/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs