is it possible to force thunar to use lowercase for desktop, music, file system, etc

slac-in-the-box · 07-27-2011, 09:33 AM

Hi LQ:

Is it possible to force Thunar (in xfce4) to use all lowercase for the special directories it manages: Desktop, Trash, and "File System"?

Snark1994 · 07-27-2011, 11:56 AM

Based on the FAQ, I can only suggest looking through the configuration file it mentions (in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/thunarrc)...

Hope this helps,

slac-in-the-box · 08-01-2011, 12:59 PM

Quote:

I can only suggest looking through the configuration file it mentions (in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/thunarrc).

well the only option I found in thunarrc that seemed like it dealt with case was

Code:

MiscCaseSensitive=FALSE

I fiddled with this option, but no cigar.

I thought that when a new user was added to the system, that its home directory was populated from a template somewhere, and also thought that if I could find this template, maybe I could change the names to lowercase there...

mumblyjoe · 01-26-2012, 06:22 PM

Per README.thunarrc:

* MiscCaseSensitive (FALSE/TRUE)

Determines whether the sorting should be done in a case-sensitive
manner. The default is FALSE.

(I know this is a kind of old thread, but this info may help others who find the thread via Google)