[lug] Make caja file manager use LC_COLLATE?

[Davide Del Vento]

Not really an answer, but better than the "nothing" you've gotten so far.

I've found that in similar cases rather than searching online or asking in
forums, it's much easier and faster to just look at the source code.
Admittedly, I never had to do that with Gnome/MATE core software, so it is
possible that I am not aware of the specific challenges of that option for
such codes for which it might not be "much easier and faster" as I claim :-)

Let us know what you find out!

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 7:44 PM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:

> This has been bugging me for a while. I finally did some looking around for
> an answer, but alas...
>
> I use the "caja" file manager. I don't know what collation sequence it's
> using for sorting the display, and there doesn't seem to be a preference
> for setting that. It is treating leading digits as numbers, and sorting
> based on magnitude, rather than alphabetically. Since it's the only program
> I use which does this, it's quite annoying.
>
> I already have EXPORT LC_COLLATE=C in my .bashrc, and this has no effect,
> even when launching caja from the command line.
>
> I've tried:
>   $ LC_COLLATE=C /usr/bin/caja
> which doesn't do anything.
>
> And, I've added the collate to /etc/default/locale, then rebooted.
>
> I did find a forum post that stated, "For the record, Caja and Nemo both
> also ignore locale settings", so possibly, there's no fix.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way to get caja to work?
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