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#1 2016-09-18 12:27:46

Friedrich
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Registered: 2016-09-18
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Edit the side pane in tree view

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

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#2 2016-09-22 17:56:40

Friedrich
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

No ideas?

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#3 2016-09-22 19:52:54

Jerry3904
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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.


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#4 2016-09-22 20:19:43

alcornoqui
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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

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#5 2016-09-23 14:49:45

Friedrich
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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.

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#6 2016-12-05 19:33:08

Friedrich
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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

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#7 2016-12-05 23:12:42

ToZ
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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.


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#8 2016-12-06 11:52:25

Friedrich
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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

what are these stamps?

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#9 2016-12-07 14:57:44

Friedrich
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

no, its not the same order?

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

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#10 2016-12-07 15:56:18

ToZ
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Re: Edit the side pane in tree view

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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