Edit the side pane in tree view

Friedrich · 2016-09-18 12:27:46

hi,

in thunar i use the tree view in the left side pane because this is not only a favorite list of folders. here i can expan the folders and sub-folders of my partitions. this is something i miss in most linux file managers since i changed from windows to linux (and this is one of the reasons i still use windows on my desktop pc). problem: it seems there is no logic in the arrangement of the partitions. in the tree view i see all my partitions, the mounted partitions and the not mounted (its useless to see the windows boot-partition here). the order of the partitions changes every time i start thunar and sometimes while i use it.

so the questions are:

1.) how can i determine what partitions are shown here?
2.) how can i display the partitions in a specific order (home dir, then normal data partitions, network drives, ...)

Friedrich

Friedrich · 2016-09-22 17:56:40

No ideas?

Jerry3904 · 2016-09-22 19:52:54

For 1) see if this does what you want: right click in an empty space in the left pane, and a small menu appears. Enter the items there to deselect items that you do not wish to see.

Other than that, no clue.

alcornoqui · 2016-09-22 20:19:43

I think the OP wants to modify the tree view, not the bookmarks view. I don't know if that's possible at all...

Friedrich · 2016-09-23 14:49:45

Yes, i use the tree view.

At the moment i can't find a logic for the sorting of the partitions in the tree view. i've mounted two ntfs partitions using fstab and the sort order is the same as in the fstab - but i'm not sure this is true. the windows boot-partition is sort before the ntfs partitions and its NOT mounted with fstab.

Friedrich · 2016-12-05 19:33:08

No ideas? doesn't anyone use the tree view? every time i boot my system the sort order is changed from the last boot.

ToZ · 2016-12-05 23:12:42

Do the results of:

gvfs-mount -l

...mimic the order of and change when the thunar device list order changes?

It looks like thunar sorts devices based on detected stamp.

Friedrich · 2016-12-06 11:52:25

I'll test it when i'm at home.

what are these stamps?

Friedrich · 2016-12-07 14:57:44

no, its not the same order?

what are these stamps? is this something created when creating the partitions, like the "label" of the partition?

ToZ · 2016-12-07 15:56:18

Friedrich wrote:

no, its not the same order?

Do you mean that the order changes when listed with gvfs-mount from boot to boot?

what are these stamps? is this something created when creating the partitions, like the "label" of the partition?

Thunar uses GIO/gvfs to access and manages these devices. It sorts them by a "stamp" (which I assume is the time stamp of when the device is recognized). If GIO/gvfs is not recognizing them in the same order, then there is nothing that Thunar can do.

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