set PCmanFM default folder view

Question

In upmenu I can only preserve view for folders.
I can press ctrl+4, but whats the way to change the default view permanent?
(Lubuntu 14.04, PCManFM 1.2.0)

score 36 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 01:35

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Open PCManFM. Choose Edit->Preferences. Navigate to the bottom and set your View Mode.

answered Jul 22 '14 at 01:35

Rex

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '19 at 14:11

I am using 0.13.0 and I needed to look quite awhile till I found the setting. This is a note to my future self when I forget this piece of info. Here is a picture to help visualize where the setting is. I did have to save it twice or so before it stuck. Maybe I should have restarted the computer or something first but setting it twice seems to work.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 18 '20 at 12:10

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I use Lubuntu 20.04. Open a Terminal (Ctr+Alt+t):

sudo nano /etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/settings.conf

now change the following part, so it looks like this:

[FolderView] Mode=List ...

It also fixed for me that the network-folder in pcman shows other computers in my network. Before it did not.

edited Jun 18 '20 at 12:10

d1bro

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answered Jun 18 '20 at 10:10

justme

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 26 '21 at 03:45

I use 18.04lts and PCmanFM (LXDE) , not the recent qt5 version. Using the above reply as a guideline I edited the file /etc/xdg/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf at the line reading "view_mode=0" inside the "[ui]" block.

For a detailed listing view use 3 (the choices 0,1,2,3 correspond to the dropdown list in pcmanfm itself) like so: "view mode=3"

Close and save. Worked like a charm.

set PCmanFM default folder view

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