[SOLVED] Nemo's sort by name underscoreFoldername not on top?!?

[rene]

[ ... ] than[ks] [ ... ] for pointing me into the right direction

You're welcome.

[ColdBootII]

Both Windows Explorer and many/most Linux file managers will sort Tape10 after Tape9. Try again?

Heh, the fact is, I tried that in terminal and not in Caja. ls thinks what I say is correct... Anyways, I don't care what the git needs anymore.

[RemonK]

I want to thank polarvortex, gm10 and kind of rene for pointing me in the right direction! I have my underscore on top of the directory structure!

Source:
http://svmiller.com/blog/2019/07/notes- ... bettersort

The only difference, i did not make separate files, that gave me some errors at starting text editors and file managers. I later edited the original files and the errors went away.

[gm10]

You are welcome.

The only difference, i did not make separate files, that gave me some errors at starting text editors and file managers. I later edited the original files and the errors went away.

That's fine, as I mentioned, I'm doing the same. The locales package never receives updates so the risk of the changes getting overwritten isas good as zero.

[RemonK]

Ahh shoot... just found out that numbers are still above the underscore.


edit: and can i make an alias of dir or ls a constant? At every boot my settings of the dir command are gone

[gm10]

Ahh shoot... just found out that numbers are still above the underscore.

I'm not sure but that's probably a GTK thing. The terminal sorts it correctly, so off the top of my head I'm not sure how that could be addressed without a source code change. But I might be completely wrong on this, too.

edit: and can i make an alias of dir or ls a constant? At every boot my settings of the dir command are gone

Sure, add the alias to your ~/.bash_aliases or ~/.bashrc (Mint doesn't have the former by default so just stick it in the latter, it's al l the same).

[RemonK]

I'm not sure but that's probably a GTK thing. The terminal sorts it correctly, so off the top of my head I'm not sure how that could be addressed without a source code change. But I might be completely wrong on this, too.

You are right, in terminal when i do ll then all underscore is on top, the numbers are second, but they are not ascending. 1014 comes before 30. And filenames and directories are mixed. But that i have covered with the ls command with a few options so directories are on top, then files. Until now i did a set alias everytime after a reboot, cause it would not stick. But i wil look into the bash_aliases thing!
But file listing is not very consistent then if terminal and file managers handle that different.

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drwxr-xr-x 2 admin root          0 sep  4 15:17  1044/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin root          0 jan 29  2018  11.22.63/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin root          0 sep  4 15:16  3/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin root          0 sep  4 15:15  30/

Also, in the tty terminals i got a complete other keyboard layout! I don't even have a backslash. Very anoyying! Is there also a setting that i can change to correct that?

[gm10]

Also, in the tty terminals i got a complete other keyboard layout! I don't even have a backslash. Very anoyying! Is there also a setting that i can change to correct that?

After logging in or before? You may have a different system locale than user locale. setxkbmap LANGUAGE_CODE to change it on the spot.

[RemonK]

If i'm correct it is before and after.. does not matter, my special keys are always wrong.

What is the format for the language code? Dutch is 528 or 0031, but he does not accept that. Can i set that permanent in a file or so?

[RemonK]

Found this in /etc/default/keyboard

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="nl"
XKBVARIANT="std"
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

[gm10]

What is the format for the language code? Dutch is 528 or 0031, but he does not accept that. Can i set that permanent in a file or so?

Much simpler, setxkbmap nl. But that should already get set automatically if your GUI uses that, I don't know why it would be wrong. What desktop environment is that? You can configure your keyboard layout in the keyboard settings that you can access from the menu or control center.

[RemonK]

Indeed nl haha.. sometimes the obvious things....

Mmh.. but i think i found the problem! Setting it to nl made my keyboard have the same wrong layout as in the terminal!
So i have to set it back, and set them all to en i think. Cause now i can't find my special keys anymore!

edit: test wan toe trie !@#$%^&*(){}[]/>< They are back!

[RemonK]

The setxkbmap does not work..

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setxkbmap en
Error loading new keyboard description

[gm10]

The setxkbmap does not work..

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setxkbmap en
Error loading new keyboard description

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setxkbmap gb
setxkbmap us
setxkbmap en_US

etc. You get the idea.

But I suggest instead you do this:

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sudo dpkg-configure keyboard-configuration

[RemonK]

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setxkbmap gb
setxkbmap us
setxkbmap en_US

etc. You get the idea.

But I suggest instead you do this:

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sudo dpkg-configure keyboard-configuration

Yeah i posted a little to quick! With the first i got it correct in the GUI again and for the terminal i found this sudo loadkeys us and that worked! I have the correct layout. But they say that it is not permanent... so maybe your last option is permanent?

[RemonK]

But I suggest instead you do this:

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sudo dpkg-configure keyboard-configuration

Can't find the package..

[gm10]

typo:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

[RemonK]

Ok, that works. But a question.. in my keyboard file it mentions PC105 model, but in fact i have a 104 model.. (Compaq KB9860 from 199*something, an old clicker). Should i let it on 105 (because it worked fine) or better 104 (because it is an 104) ??

[gm10]

If it works like you want it to I wouldn't bother.

[RemonK]

I looked it up what that one key difference was.. the left shift is shorter and between shift and Z sits a key with \ and | character.. all this time on my old clicker and never knew that! But i don't have it so i set it to 104. EN_US international and everything works fine!
And now CTRL-SHIFT-U also works again! Nice!!

May i thank you again for your help, Sir!