How Do I Change Nautilus Sort Order?

[rambutan]

When Nautilus opens for user me I get the folders like this
bin - boot - Data - dev
When I open Nautilus as root I get the folders like this:
Data - bin - boot - dev
I want them both to sort in alpha (ignore case) rather than pure ascii in root

First stop was configuration-editor.
search for any thing with "sort" - lots of hits but none solve it.

Next stop Read The Free Manual.
http://library.gnome.org/admin/syste...-guide/stable/
I learned about path, defaults, mandatory, repositories all over the place.
IF you know the name of the field to change the manual shows you how.

Next stop experiment on a sand-box copy of SuSE.
Manual said don't edit these with users logged in.
I renamed 6 configuration files /root/.gconf(2), /root/.gnome(3) and /root/.nautilus.
Then I copied over /home/me/.g(5 files) and /home/me/.nautilus into /root/
Then I chown -R the new files.
Boot into the modified SuSE
Still root's Nautilus sorts in ascii.

Anyone know where this elusive setting is kept?

[eberhard]

Sorting is governed by the $LANG environment variable. As default $LANG for root is C, whereas for your normal user it might be en_EN.utf-8 . This means, for root sorting is done by ascii values and there big letters come first, while the sorting for natural languages is done alphabetically like in a dictionary. You can change this behavior for root with yast->system->/etc/sysconfig editor->System->Environment->Language->ROOT_USES_LANG from the value 'ctype' to e.g. 'en_EN.utf-8'.

Btw, you shouldn't run a program from a gui, like nautilus as root. Too dangerous.

[rambutan]

Thanks eberhard,

I'm still chasing it though.
I did as you said but the sort stayed the same way.
So I tired en_US.UTF-8
The sort stays the same.
In the terminal I can
$ echo $LANG
and get en_US.UTF-8
# echo $LANG
and I get POSIX
I cannot export a value it will take.
I tried like # export $LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
but still echo $LANG is POSIX
Is there a file in /etc I can use gedit to set this?

Using Nautilus as Root... I don't log in as root, I use $ su - ; # nautilus
Are you saying that's risky too? Risk of my errors or security risk?

[rambutan]

I got it!
# gedit /etc/sysconfig/language
add the line
ROOT_USES_LANG="yes"