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

Avi Greenbury lists at avi.co
Thu Feb 13 15:22:14 UTC 2014


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?

-- 
Avi




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