Dolphin
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This article is about Dolphin, the default file manager of the K Desktop Environment. For the game emulator, see Dolphin emu.
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Installation
Install the dolphin package, or dolphinpart4 for the legacy KDE4 version.
For version control and Dropbox support, install dolphin-plugins. The Compare files dialog depends on kompare.
File previews
- kdegraphics-thumbnailers: Image files
- kdesdk-thumbnailers: Plugins for the thumbnailing system
- ffmpegthumbs: Video files (based on ffmpeg)
- raw-thumbnailer:
.raw
files - audiothumbs-frameworks-gitAUR : Audio files
- kde-thumbnailer-apkAUR: Android application package files
- kde-thumbnailer-blenderAUR: Blender application files
- kde-thumbnailer-epubAUR: Electronic book files
Usage
Open Terminal
Dolphin and other KDE applications use konsole by default. To change the default terminal emulator, run kcmshell4 componentchooser
and select Terminal Emulator > Use a different terminal program.
KIO Slaves
Dolphin uses KIO slaves for network access, trash and other functionality, unlike GTK+ file managers which use GVFS. Available protocols are shown in the location bar (editable mode) [1]. To quickly bookmark them, right-click in the workspace, and select "Add to Places".
Troubleshooting
No search results
If Baloo is enabled, Dolphin attempts to use it for file searches even if no file index is present. Either create a Baloo file index, or disable file indexing through kcmshell4 kcm_baloofile
.
Transparent fonts
Fonts in selection frames may become transparent when using the GTK+ Qt style. Native Qt styles such as Cleanlooks and Oxygen are unaffected.
Unicode characters are not shown
This was a general issue in Qt4 and kdelibs, solved in v4.11 and later versions. [2]
See Samba#Unable to overwrite files.
Cannot write to NTFS: Operation not permitted
If you are not able to do any write operations (create/delete/rename file/folder) as normal user to your NTFS partition, then you probably missing to install the ntfs-3g package. See NTFS-3G for details.