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.
Contents
Installation
For version control and Dropbox support, install dolphin-plugins.
Compare files
The Compare files dialog depends on kompare. Alternatively, you can compare files in any diff tool (such as meld) by selecting two files, right clicking, selecting open with, and then the diff tool.
File previews
- kdegraphics-thumbnailers: Image files
- kdesdk-thumbnailers: Plugins for the thumbnailing system
- ffmpegthumbs: Video files (based on ffmpeg)
- raw-thumbnailer:
.raw
files - taglib : 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 kcmshell5 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
Device names shown as "X GiB Harddrive"
Create a filesystem label, or a partition label, and Dolphin will show this label in the device list instead of the size. See Persistent block device naming#by-label.
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.
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.