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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/21/2018 11:11 AM, Jerry Van
Brimmer wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is
there a way to force PCManFM to always use "Sort Files >
Ascending > By Name" ?<br>
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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. <br>
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I found on the web that this has been a long standing complaint
about PCManFM. <br>
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I found this workaround:<br>
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You can use <i>View > Sort Files</i> 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 <i>Edit
> Preferences</i> and close. That will write your current
sort_type and sort_by values into <code>~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf</code>.<br>
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Found that here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/phq7ska"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://tinyurl.com/phq7ska</a>
on the Arch Linux Wiki site. But that workaround doesn't always
work.<br>
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Is there a solution to this, or is this annoying problem by
design? <br>
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<div>I'm using Lubuntu 17.10.1 64bit fully updated. <br>
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<div>God bless,<br>
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<div><i>Jerry Van Brimmer</i><br>
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<p>Jerry:</p>
<p>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). <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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Sincerely,
Aere</pre>
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