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Java Desktop System Release 3 User Guide

To Set List Columns Preferences

You can specify what information is displayed in list view in file manager windows. For example, you can specify which columns are displayed and the order in which the columns are displayed.

To set your preferences for list columns in the File Management dialog, click on the List Columns tab to display the List Columns tabbed section. To specify a column to display in list view, select the option that corresponds to the column, then click on the Show button. To remove a column from the list view, select the option that corresponds to the column, then click on the Hide button.

Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to specify the position of columns in list view.

To use the default columns and column positions, click on the Use Default button.

The following table describes the columns that you can display:

Information 

Description  

Name

Select this option to display the name of the item. 

Size

Select this option to display the size of the item. 

Type

Select this option to display the description of the MIME type of the item from the File Associations preference tool.

Date Modified

Select this option to display the last modification date of the item. 

Date Accessed

Select this option to display the date that the item was last accessed. 

Group

Select this option to display the group to which the item belongs. 

MIME Type

Select this option to display the MIME type of the item. 

Octal Permissions

Select this option to display the permissions of the item in octal notation, for example 764.

Owner

Select this option to display the owner of the item. 

Permissions

Select this option to display the permissions of the item as three sets of three characters, for example -rwxrw-r--.