Changing The Sort Order In Nautilus

gacl · 02-12-2011, 08:21 AM

Hi,

How do you change the sort order in Nautilus? I want it to look like this:

004
02
030
1
10

but I get this:

1
02
004
10
030

Please see this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post10450418

Gus

MTK358 · 02-12-2011, 09:45 AM

Just click on the list header to sort according to that column.

gacl · 02-14-2011, 08:26 PM

That doesn't solve the problem. I don't see how clicking on the headers will fix the sort order.

MTK358 · 02-15-2011, 07:40 AM

Here:

gacl · 02-15-2011, 03:29 PM

Thanks for your help but clicking on the headers is not helping. I need Nautilus to respect leading zeros and follow a strict numerical order.

MTK358 · 02-15-2011, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacl

Thanks for your help but clicking on the headers is not helping. I need Nautilus to respect leading zeros and follow a strict numerical order.

So you don't want to just sort alphabetically, but you want to redefine what "alphabetically" means?

gacl · 02-16-2011, 02:07 PM

It's not the alphabet part that is at fault, it's the numbers. Look at the examples I gave above.

Gus

MTK358 · 02-16-2011, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacl

It's not the alphabet part that is at fault, it's the numbers. Look at the examples I gave above.

That doesn't matter, it still the sorting order.

I'm not sure if this is possible to change without modifying Nautilus's source code. Or maybe there's an environment variable that can change this.

See if the output of the ls command is in the same order as in Nautilus.

gacl · 02-20-2011, 09:49 AM

"ls" sorts the test folder as:

user@user:~$ ls test
001 002347 030 10374638920 666593

Nautilus sorts as:

001 030 002347 666593 10374638920

I want Nautilus to sort like "ls".

Gus

MTK358 · 02-20-2011, 09:55 AM

My guess is that you cannot change it without modifying and recompiling Nautilus's source code.

gacl · 02-21-2011, 02:56 PM

That's too bad. Thank you.

Gus