Michael wrote: > 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. >
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. Remember, my video collection. It's into the hundreds of directories. To be honest, if the monitor stand I have was taller, I would turn one monitor on it's side so that panel/pane could be very long. Thing is, monitor won't fit that way. I prefer to just have it locked at / and work with it that way. Faster, easier and all that. If I can just figure out how the old rig does that. >> 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? > 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. I admit tho, when I tried that, I thought it was a good idea too. >> 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. 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????? Right now, I got NAS1 sitting on top of the old rig. I moved out the ammo can with my stash of salt in it. Remember, me looking everywhere for my ammo can with salt in it only to find it under NAS1?? ROFL Might could copy that one file over too. Might work. I was really wanting to give all of a KDE a fresh start on config files tho. > >> 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? :-/ 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. Odd tho, only the main monitor does it. The second monitor stays on and so does the TV. It may do it when I'm not looking too. I dunno. Dale :-) :-)
