[Leaplist] Anyone know how to tame Nautilus?????

[Justin M. Keyes]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jim Hartley <xjimh at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Problem 1 - HELP doesn't work (I think maybe this contributes to some of
> the other problems). I get
>
> There was an error displaying help:
> There was an error launching the default action command associated with
> this location.

maybe you don't have 'yelp' installed?

> Problem 2 - If I launch Nautilus manually from Applications->System
> Tools->File Browser, I get a 2-pane window - Icons/Listing of files on
> the right, and a narrow tree-view on the left. But if something crashes
> and I "lose" this, the next time I reboot I get a ONE-PANE window, the
> tree view is missing! (I really use and need that tree view.) Have to
> kill it and restart it manually from the menu.

i have no idea what you're talking about.

you can configure windows key + E to launch nautlius:
http://google.com/notebook/public/09215999718214582104/BDTAiLAoQh9_c5OAh
then pass command-line options to nautilus in that configuration.

probably whatever you are using to launch the "ONE-PANE" window is not
passing the right options.

> Problem 3 - "Sort by Name" gives weird (at least to me) results. If the
> name starts with a numeric, it treats ALL leading numerics as a NUMBER
> and sorts on that, making files very hard to find. For example,
> 1111xxx.jpg sorts higher than 99xxx.jpg, while I would much rather see

sounds like 'natural sort'. see:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001018.html

> everything that starts with "1" together and everything that starts with
> "9" together. I want a strict ASCII ordered sort (with no attempt to

to disable 'natural sort', maybe this will help (i didn't read it fully):
http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-suse-linux/archives-desktop-environments/384605-how-do-i-change-nautilus-sort-order.html

Justin M. Keyes

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