PCManFM quirks

DMcCunney · Post by **DMcCunney** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:08 pm

I've been playing with Lxde, and I've encountered two quirks. I wonder if others have seen these, and what fixes might exist.

1) Lxde displays entries placed in ~/Desktop as desktop icons. In my install, they display top left down, sorted by type - directories appear before launchers - but there seems to be no pattern to the order in which they display. It's not alphabetical by name, or chronological by datestamp, and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it. I believe PCManFM handles this, but can't find any options affecting it.

2) File names in a directory list doesn't seem to use standard ASCII collation. When I sort by name, leading non-alpha chars are ignored, so I'll see things like

Charles Dickens
_Copyrighted
Edgar Wallace
@ePub

when I expect to see

@ePub
_Copyrighted
Charles Dickens
Edgar Wallace

I normally use XFCE4 as my desktop environment, and things display as expected in Thunar.

Is there a simple fix for this, or will it require a new version of the file manager? It's actually a show stopper for what I do.

Thanks,
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Dennis