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Questions tagged [dolphin]

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Why is GNU find so fast in comparison with graphical file search utilities?

I'm trying to find a file that doesn't exist in my home directory and all subdirectories. find ~/ -name "bogus" gives me that information after few seconds, yet KDE's dolphin file manager needed almost 3 minutes to do the same. This corresponds…
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How to switch pane in Dolphin using keyboard?

I'm a long time user of KDE Dolphin and love the pane mechanism. I know you can open/close pane using F3. However, I can't find a shortcut to switch from one pane to another like Pycharm, Tmux or other application allow. I know you can use the…
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Error unlocking a LUKS partition (failed to activate device:file exists)

I'm having problems unlocking a luks-encrypted disk with KDE dolphin, in a system with manjaro. The issue is not critical. It can be solved by rebooting, but sometimes it is not convenient to do so, and I find that it might be useful to understand…
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Mounting ISO in Linux/KDE

Is there a graphical, preferably integrated with Dolphin, utility for mounting ISO images?
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Mounting from dolphin vs commandline

I have been wondering how this is possible (i.e. how this works internally). When you want to mount a directory you have to be root. sudo mount /dev/something /mnt/somedir I know you can get around that by adding a line in fstab. Now, I'm wondering…
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How to get larger thumbnails in dolphin

How can I increase the maximal size (when enlarging them with Ctrl +) and resolution of thumbnails in dolphin? If not, is there any other file manager which supports larger thumbnails than dolphin to preview pdf's and djvu's?
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How to make MTP work

I'm experiencing many problems trying to properly connect and access the memory of my phone from my Linux system. I'm running openSUSE 13.1, with KDE, and my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo equipped with Android 4.4.2 (it is not rooted, it it makes…
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How do I stop memory issue caused by baloo_file_extractor?

I using Arch Linux with XFCE/XFWM4. The default FM is very lightweight thunar, but I installed dolphin for some more functionality. I was studying about large files and creating some 2 gigs of files on my system. I suddenly saw my system is going…
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How to disconnect a remote volume in dolphin

I understand how I can mount a distant volume in Dolphin, through the Network place and the Add Network Folder command, but how can I disconnect from such a remote file system? I want to ensure a manual disconnect, not a mere timeout.
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Dolphin Background and Font Color are both white

I installed dolphin (18.12.2-1) as file manager (for most the things I use "ls" but sometimes a preview is helpful) in i3wm on an Archlinux and would like to be able to change the background color or the font color of it. I had once an application…
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Keyboard shortcut to focus the file list in Dolphin?

When using Dolphin, I often end up with focus on the "Places" left-panel. Moving keyboard focus to the main file list is a horrible process, involving pressing Tab once per entry in the location breadcrumbs bar. Is there any keyboard shortcut to…
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Dereference copy with KDE Dolphin

From the cli I can dereference copy a symbolic link with cp -L. Is it possible to do this with the KDE Dolphin file manager?
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kde dolphin terminal is not loading ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile

Since upgrading my debian. Bash in dolphin's terminal is not loading the config files. However, bash in Konsole is loading these. What can I do to get Dolphin's terminal to load these? After some testing I note that if I start dolphin with the shell…
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Key sequence ambiguous in Konsole

My Arch Linux machine has KDE Plasma desktop installed and I'm using Konsole as a terminal. In Konsole, when I highlight text and press Ctrl+Shift+C on my keyboard to copy it, I get this popup message. The key sequence 'Ctrl+Shift+C' is ambiguous.…
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Dark theme in Dolphin file manager

I'm using a dark theme in Debian, but the Dolphin file manager just ignores it. I have seen some examples of a dark theme in Dolphin, but I can't find a way to do it. I've seen some ways to set a background image, but of course that doesn't help…
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