I just need a simple file manager which shows not just date of modification, as Thunar does, but date-hour-minute-second.
1 Answer
This is a very personal choice (which file-manager/any-program best suits your tastes), but PCMan-FM (from LXDE) provides everything by default except seconds.
But do you need to change?
If you go to File Manager Preferences (Edit->Preferences) in Thunar then on the Display tab I can select DATE format from a pull-down list, my (x)Ubuntu 19.04 system has five (5) options which includes seconds (let alone the Custom allowing you to set your own config if none of the 5 suit your needs).
I also tested an 18.04 LTS box, and had the same 5 options, picture of the configuration window of thunar
on my Xubuntu 18.04 LTS is
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if you have access to different file managers could you please try, for example,
LANG=C dolphin
in a terminal (replacingdolphin
with the relevant file manager's name)? When I open Dolphin using justdolphin
in the terminal, I get03/01/19 5:56 AM
but if I useLANG=C dolphin
, I get3 Jan 2019 05:56:07
. This maybe useful for file managers that don't offer an easy way to select date/time options.– DK BoseJan 3, 2019 at 2:24 -
1@DKBose I noticed no difference in
pcmanfm
orpcmanfm-qt
, northunar
orcaja
. I did however get the different date formats fordolphin
that you described.– guivercJan 3, 2019 at 3:13 -
Thanks! It is just as you show for Thunar. I think I was too sleepy when I tried to solve it– LisanJan 7, 2019 at 23:47
~/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png
as the initial filename.