Thanks for confirming behaviour. That's always a start in fixing things.
Also the link.
JN
On 2025-06-29 22:02, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:44:40 -0400
Dianne Skoll <[email protected]> wrote:
Could the sort be using a field other than the filename, such as
sorting by modification time? Most file managers let you sort by
name, or by size, or by modification time, or whatever.
I see Eric already addressed that, so ok.
I can reproduce the problem in Thunar... apparently, Thunar sorts
as in "sort -n" which is just completely broken.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5359
It considers 200410PeterFrohn95thBirthday02withFamily to come before
19460904PeterFrohnwedding01 because the number 200,410 is less than the
number 19,460,904
(In my tests, it doesn't even behave exactly like "sort -n"... Thunar seems
to sort numerically if filenames contain any digits, which is even worse.)
Regards,
Dianne.
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