How to get UNIX sort order in the Thunar File Manager?

Jeffery Small jeff at cjsa.com
Thu Feb 13 21:33:33 UTC 2014


Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> writes:

>Jeffery Small wrote:
>> 
>> Running Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit on an ASUS U56E
>> 
>> I want to get files and directories within Thunar to display in
>> standard UNIX sorting order, with uppercase directories appearing
>> before lowercase directories, and the same for files.  In other
>> words, what I get is:

>What you're after isn't really 'UNIX sorting order' but ASCII order;
>capital letters are earlier in the ASCII table than are lower-case
>ones. 

>This stackexchange thread:
> 
>http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10581/is-it-possible-to-make-thunar-sort-by-ascii-order
>
>mentions a bug apparently fixed in Thunar 1.6.x which can be worked
>around by setting MiscCaseSensitive to true in ~/.config/Thunar/thunarrc

>Does that work? Which version of Thunar do you have?

Thanks Avi.  I have Thunar 1.6.3.  I made the change to the config file
(it was previously set to FALSE), then logged out/in just to be sure.
Unfortunately, this did not change the behavior of Thunar.

Other ideas?





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