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Suppose I have a folder with pictures. If I sort them by name once I open one with Image Viewer and navigate to the others the order is respected. But if I sort my files by modification date, for example, I can't do that. Basically, the default Image Viewer only lets you navigate images by name.
According to this thread on the Ubuntu Forums this has been an issue since 2007! Is there a good/easy way to fix it? Seems like such a trivial thing to me.
If you are in list view in Nautilus, click over the top of the column "Date Modified". This will sort your files by date (newest to oldest). If you click twice, it will sort them from oldest to newest.
For a solution that affects all directories choose Edit -> Preferences and set your preferred layout:
There's an additional parameter default-sort-in-reverse-order that doesn't appear to be accessible from the in-application preferences menu, but can be set in the dconf database - I think this will do you want.
There is a GUI dconf-editor that allows you to modify such hidden settings - it's not installed by default but available by installing the dconf-tools package. Alternatively you can set it from the command line using gsettings
$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-in-reverse-order true
If the dconf-tools package is installed, there is an equivalent dconf command line
$ dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/default-sort-in-reverse-order
You can revert the change any time with
$ gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-in-reverse-order
or
$ dconf reset /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/default-sort-in-reverse-order
Note that it applies to whatever the default sort order is, so for example if you change back to sort-by-name that will be reversed as well - there doesn't seem to be a way to specify the sort direction individually.
Best Answer
Well I found here that installing gThumb is an alternative to it. Other suggestions welcome.