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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

gtk file picker and folder sorting [Solved]

I recently noticed that when using the gtk file picker, folders are sorted separately for lowercase/uppercase:

Is there a way to tell the file picker to ignore casing?

Last edited by anonymous_user (2009-10-20 23:09:19)

Teoulas

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 70

Re: gtk file picker and folder sorting [Solved]

It depends on your LC_COLLATE environment variable.
LC_COLLATE=el_GR.utf8 results in this order:

LC_COLLATE=C (the default, unless you set a different value) results in this:

you can add the following line to your .bashrc file:

export LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8

then logout/login and see if it helps.

Last edited by Teoulas (2009-10-20 22:55:59)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: gtk file picker and folder sorting [Solved]

It worked. Thank you.