I am running KDE 3.5.9.

I like to display hidden files and directories. Konqueror ignores the dot
and sorts the entries by the first letter. How do I get it to place
dotfiles first, as it used to?

TIA,

Doug.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> I like to display hidden files and directories. Konqueror ignores the dot
> and sorts the entries by the first letter. How do I get it to place
> dotfiles first, as it used to?

View menu > Show Hidden Files.

Sean McLaughlin wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>
>> I like to display hidden files and directories. Konqueror ignores the
>> dot
>> and sorts the entries by the first letter. How do I get it to place
>> dotfiles first, as it used to?
>
> View menu > Show Hidden Files.

Thanks for the tip, but that gives me the choice of show or don't show. I
want hidden files to be listed, but grouped together. Technically, I want
the dot in the filename to be included in Konqueror's name check as an
ASCII character.

Doug.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> Sean McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>>
>>> I like to display hidden files and directories. Konqueror ignores the
>>> dot
>>> and sorts the entries by the first letter. How do I get it to place
>>> dotfiles first, as it used to?
>>
>> View menu > Show Hidden Files.
>
> Thanks for the tip, but that gives me the choice of show or don't show. I
> want hidden files to be listed, but grouped together. Technically, I want
> the dot in the filename to be included in Konqueror's name check as an
> ASCII character.

They are grouped together. All dotfiles come first regardless of the sort
order (with the obvious caveat if "Folders First" is active) in every view
mode except Info List. This is not strict ASCII ordering, but unless you
have many files with names =~ /^[ !"#$%&'()*+,-]/, it's not going to matter
much.