columns in Rox-Filer

[Member isminaki]

Hi Everybody,

is there a way to adjust the columns in Rox-filer?
When I switch to detailed view in Rox, I would like to have the date/time column next to the name column. Is there a way to adjust.

best regards

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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As far as I know, you cannot do that.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Anonymous]

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https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive/rox-filer-new-version-available-t7040.html
skidoo
posted: 2017-06-28

. . .
shortlist of notable changes:

in details view, columns are reorderable
. . .

a debfile is downloadable here: https://github.com/antix-skidoo/rox-filer
As is explained in the archived topic, your pre-existing rox-filer configuration settings are preserved
in case you later decide to uninstall it and to reinstall the older version from antiX repository.

If you discover a bug, or care to monitor whether other users have, the issue tracker page is here: https://github.com/antix-skidoo/rox-filer/issues

[Member isminaki]

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Thank you for the reply.
I installed the deb in a virtual box. I am able to reorder the column, but the view is not saved. In order to save, I have tried
right click
view
save current Display settings
hookmarked all
save
And closed the window. A new start of rox brings me back to saved view with the old (default) column order.
Is there something else to do?

[Anonymous]

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Is there something else to do?

If you read the archived forum topic I linked to, you will discover “(non-permanent ~~ custom order is discarded when rox-filer exits)” is the intended behavior.
Toggled choices, specifying whether each column is visible/hidden, are offered via the preferences dialog. These are immediately applied (configuration file is updated), and are saved/reapplied across sessions.

Explanation why that’s the intended behavior: Updating the rox configuration file in response to each drag-resize and/or drag-reorder operation would be wildly non-performant. Besides, when I have multiple rox-filer instances running… I probably don’t want “all the same, for every one” layout changes made to one window affecting all the other rox-filer windows.

[Member isminaki]

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I can not find this setting?
Can you pls. help me. Maybe with a screenshot.

[Anonymous]

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[Member isminaki]

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Thank you for the help.
I understood, that I can toggle the columns to be visible or hidden. Like hiding the column owner.

best regards

[Anonymous]

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isminaki, FYI, the functionality to save/preserve column ordering is provided in the version of rox-filer maintained by “jun7”
https://github.com/jun7/rox-filer/commit/3d86f75052e1051f045c0d40ef4f3df12582bca5
A fella named “woodenshoe” packages the jun7 code into a .pet for use in puppylinux; I haven’t seen anyone package it for use with debian.
(IIRC, the current jun7 version uses (depends) libgio, and contains other significant differences compared to my custom version.)

[Member isminaki]

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Thank you for the info.
That would be a project for me: to change the c-code and compile it again. Haven’t done it for decades.

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