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)
asked Jul 21, 2014 at 22:04
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Open PCManFM. Choose Edit->Preferences. Navigate to the bottom and set your View Mode.
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I also use Lubuntu 14.04, PCManFM 1.2.0. In Edit ->Preferences, there is just no way to set the view mode!?– ubuplexApr 7, 2015 at 11:29
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Ubuplex: Look in the first tab (General). At the bottom you will see Default View. There is where you can change it.– RexApr 7, 2015 at 14:35
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1Who has given me a down badge for my true statement??? PCManFM will only record the view for the currently active folder, even if you select "record view" (or however it is named in the English version). It will just forget it for any other folder.– ubuplexApr 9, 2015 at 8:37
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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. 
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.
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.
