On Tuesday, 6 August 2024 08:16:04 BST Dale wrote:

Howdy,

As most know, I've built a new rig. I've fixed a lot of things over the
past couple weeks but I've got one thing that I just can't figure out. Dolphin is the default file manager and it works well enough. It's
better than the old Konqueror in most ways. I wish it would do man
pages tho. Anyway, I have mine set to have the Folders panel open all
the time on the left side. I on occasion use places etc but only show
those on the odd occasion I need them. I like the Folder panel to show
the root directory, root as in / where /boot, /home, /var and such is located. I got it to show it the way I wanted it to be and then tell it
to lock the location with a right click and lock the location. Thing
is, if I navigate to say /home/dale/Desktop, and anything inside that,
it switches to what I'd call the /home/dale view. I can't get to /mnt
or /run/media for USB sticks and such because those are no longer showing.

You probably know this, the removable mounted or unmounted devices ought to show on the side panel under 'Devices', where you can click to mount or unmount them manually.

The /mnt or any other /* directories will show up both when you click the / partition Label on the 'Devices' side panel section and when you click Root in the 'Places' section.

I've went through the Configure Dolphin settings, I've tried to right
click in other areas and it just won't stay where I put it. I've even
tried closing all the Dolphin instances but one and get it set like I
want and lock the panel. As soon as I go into /home stuff, the panel switches again to /home/dale view.

It seems the top directory in the Folders side panel is dynamically adjusted when you decent through its subdirectories. Have you played with:

Settings > Configure Dolphin > Startup > Show on startup

to see if you can set / in there? I don't know if this might affect it permanently, rather than on startup, but its worth trying.

Alternatively, is the dolphin window and size of fonts/icons as large in this desktop as it was in your old desktop?

My old rig would stick to the /
directory like I want. However, I gave KDE a fresh start when I moved
to the new rig. The old config info was carried over from the KDE4
version, maybe even KDE3. So, this is a fresh start and I figure there
is a setting somewhere that will fix this but I just can't figure out
where that is set.

You can diff the old-new rig '~/.config/dolphirc' files to see if there is any setting relevant to the side panel.

Anyone have a idea how to make Dolphin lock the panel at / and it not
switch to /home/dale view?? I'd think locking is enough but maybe the
lock setting isn't working and it is a bug. Maybe it is set somewhere
else. I just can't figure out if it is a bug, bad setting or something
else.

Thoughts??

Thanks.

Dale

:-) :-)

P. S. Liking the new rig. Sometimes my main monitor blinks off and
back on again. I can't figure out why yet but I'm working on it.
Swapped cables so far. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. :-)

Probably some power Energy Star® saving feature on the monitor? :-/

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On 06/08/2024 16:28, Michael wrote:

to see if you can set / in there? I don't know if this might affect it permanently, rather than on startup, but its worth trying.

You can also set it on the startup command, so if you went in and edited
the appropriate .desktop file, you can always tell it to start at /.

Cheers,
Wol

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Am Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 06:02:47PM -0500 schrieb Dale:

The /mnt or any other /* directories will show up both when you click the /
partition Label on the 'Devices' side panel section and when you click Root in
the 'Places' section.

True but I rarely use that panel, pane or whatever it is called.  Once I open /home and go a couple layers, the list gets VERY long.  It's so
long that I tend to use the mouse pointer and the scroll bar to move.  A mouse wheel scroll would take a long time.

You can hold the shift key while turning the wheel, this will cause it to scroll by page, not by three lines at a time. That’s a very nifty feature since at least KDE 3 (that was when I started my “Linux career”).

It seems the top directory in the Folders side panel is dynamically adjusted
when you decent through its subdirectories. Have you played with:

Settings > Configure Dolphin > Startup > Show on startup

to see if you can set / in there? I don't know if this might affect it permanently, rather than on startup, but its worth trying.

Alternatively, is the dolphin window and size of fonts/icons as large in this
desktop as it was in your old desktop?

I tried that too.  It still does the /home/dale thing when I go into my
home directory.  There has to be a setting somewhere since it works on
my old rig.  I just can't find it.  I may boot the old rig and compare.  Maybe when I enable/disable something some new settings show up somewhere. 

First I wanted to write that I don’t really believe there is an option for this. So you could simply go to home (with Alt+Home) and one level up with Alt+Cursor, so the folder panel goes back to root mode.

And then I had one more look and simply clicked around a bit. I’ve never really used the folder panel; I usually stick to the Places panel. I noticed
a suspicios menu item … and Heureka! Just right-click any folder in the panel and uncheck “Limit to home directory”.

If only.  I'd have to connect everything back up to the old rig so I can boot.  Right now, nothing plugged into it.  I need to do some things on
it tho.  Drag out the old keyboard, spare mouse and various other
things.  Hmmmm, where am I going to put a monitor tho?????

You could try headless with SSH, if it’s just moving files around that needs to be done.

Anyone have a idea how to make Dolphin lock the panel at / and it not
switch to /home/dale view?? I'd think locking is enough but maybe the
lock setting isn't working and it is a bug.

The “lock setting” is for locking the sidebar layout, not its content.

P. S. Liking the new rig. Sometimes my main monitor blinks off and
back on again. I can't figure out why yet but I'm working on it.
Swapped cables so far. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. :-)

Probably some power Energy Star® saving feature on the monitor? :-/

Well, it does it when I'm actually doing things like typing a email or something.  Plus, most energy saving stuff is disabled.  It has to stay
on so I can watch TV anyway.

Media players usually inhibit the suspend signal to the monitor anyways.

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On 07/08/2024 01:09, Dale wrote:

Well choke me until I look like a Smurf.  ROFLMBO  That worked.  As soon as I clicked that, it went to the / directory.  It seems to stick
there.  It actually changed it for every instance I have running too.
It seems that Dolphin wants to run as one instance instead of multiple.
I'm not sure about that yet tho.  I tend to have at least four instances
of Dolphin open at the same time. Sometimes more if I'm downloaded trail camera pics or something.

I find Dolphin has a habit of opening extra tabs, which I don't usually
want. I have to explicitly ask for extra windows. And of course, it
doesn't seem to implement "drag tab and it'll turn into a window" :-(

Cheers,
Wol

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