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fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Nautilus case sensitive ordering

Hi,
Just wondering if it's possible to make nautilus order files without case sensitivity when they're sorted by name.
I've tried a few searches but turned up nothing, except that the gnome documentation says it isn't case sensitive (here)

There's nothing in gconf either, as far as I can see.
If I recall correctly, it wasn't case sensitive when using nautilus in other distros...

Sorry if this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything in the forums.

thanks
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IceHand

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 53

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Re: Nautilus case sensitive ordering

Sorry to dig this out, but I have the same problem here. Maybe it has something to do with a Locale setting?

EDIT: Indeed, changing the Locale did fix the problem. Add this to your ~/.bashrc

export LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"

Note: Now most programs will sort files insensitive including the "ls" command.

Last edited by IceHand (2007-05-07 18:37:59)

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: Nautilus case sensitive ordering

There's no need to add additional export settings to your .bashrc.  Simply commenting the line in /etc/profile will revert your LC_COLLATE variable back to whatever you have set as your LOCALE in /etc/rc.conf.  For example:

#export LC_COLLATE="C"

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