Dolphin

This article is about Dolphin, the default file manager of the K Desktop Environment. For the game emulator, see Dolphin emu.

Installation

Install kdebase-dolphin. For version control and Dropbox support, install kdesdk-dolphin-plugins. The Compare files dialog depends on kdesdk-kompare.

File previews

Usage

Open Terminal

Dolphin and other KDE applications use kdebase-konsole[broken link: replaced by konsole] by default. To change the default terminal emulator, run kcmshell4 componentchooser and select Terminal Emulator > Use a different terminal program.

KIO Slaves

Note: This does not require kdebase-kioslaves[broken link: package not found].

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 kdelibs solved in v4.11 and later versions. [2]

See also