[lubuntu-users] PCManFM default sort order

[Israel]

Hi Jerry
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On 03/21/2018 12:11 PM, 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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>
Not 100% sure if this will solve your issue... but
You might simply copy your config file to the default.
|~/.config/pcmanfm/default/||pcmanfm.conf|
> 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.
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> God bless,
> /Jerry Van Brimmer/
>
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Regards

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