I'm using KDE Plasma with Dolphin on Debian 12 Bookworm, and I want to completely disable all tracking and history features related to: - Recent Files - Recent Folders - Clipboard History - Search History - Recently Used Applications I want also to clear any data and history that has already been collected by these features. How to prevent KDE from re enabling or recreating those logs. Im looking for a thorough and systemwide solution that ensures KDE does not track or show anything from past activity. What is the correct way to achieve this?

I've been trying for several days to optimize my KDE with Debian 12 bookworm, adjusting various settings and removing some programs that I don't actually need. I tried to uninstall the Konqueror browser because I only want to use Firefox and Dolphin. But when I try to do it via the GUI or a shell, the system shows it wants to remove additional packages I don't want to delete. Why can't Konqueror simply be removed without removing other packages?

So Dolphin is behaving funny. I can't tell you if this is new or not. System Info: Arch Linux 64 bit up to date, standalone startx with i3. The devices in question are fat32 and exfat (stupid windows support...). I haven't tried formatting them to ext4 because that just isn't an option for me. 1) Open Dolphin, instert USB, device recognized! 2) Insert USB, open Dolphin, device not listed :( I can run a mount /dev/sdc1 /mount/xxx no problem. fdisk -l out: Disk /dev/sda: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 6EEBD8E6-6C6B-415F-8DF2-5E635871C1E1 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 976895 974848 476M EFI System /dev/sda2 976896 59570175 58593280 28G Linux filesystem /dev/sda3 59570176 387002367 327432192 156.1G Linux filesystem /dev/sda4 387002368 468860927 81858560 39G Microsoft basic data Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xcf4dbac4 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb2 206848 738678783 738471936 352.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb3 738678784 972658687 233979904 111.6G 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 972658688 976773167 4114480 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdc: 7.5 GiB, 8029470208 bytes, 15682559 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x56604413 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2048 15681535 15679488 7.5G b W95 FAT32 Dolphin recognized all of the partitions on my SSD and HDD, it is just USBs that are the problem. Any ideas? Thanks!

In KDE Dolphin there is a mechanism to open a terminal/Konsole window by using the shortcut key ALT+SHIFT+F4. Is there a mechanism where the terminal that is opened only from Dolphin opens with a specific Profile? Is there a way to configure this? Setting a profile as default in Konsole application results in all the terminal windows opening with that specific profile, even those opened from within Dolphin. The objective is to distinguish between terminals/Konsole that are opened from within Dolphin and those terminals/Dolphin that are opened from outside of Dolphin by using the universal key combination CTRL+ALT+T or some other means. * KDE Plasma Ver 6.0 * QT version 6.0

When I use Dolphin File Manager in Detail View mode, for some reason there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar if I adjust my columns to fill the screen. The only way to get rid of the scrollbar is to make my columns much narrower and leave a huge gap on the right edge. I have tried turning "Side Padding" on and off, but it only seems to affect padding on the left side, not on the right. The undesired scrollbar is visible in the screenshot across the bottom edge of the main window panel. How can I eliminate this? I am on Dolphin 25.04.0 with KDE Plasma 6.3.5 on Arch Linux (kernel 6.14.5-arch1-1).

After upgrading Kubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10 and that to Plasma 5.14.5 through the "backports" PPA I am lucky enough to face almost no bugs, except annoying notifications saying "kdeinit5 closed unexpectedly" It happens when I take some normal actions in Dolphin: start a new window, new tab, split, refresh. It seems to me that those actions are related to the Dolphin *window*; creating a new folder or deleting something doesn't trigger the error. I read here that kdeinit5 is a process launcher that executes KDE programs and kdeinit loadable modules (KLMs) starting them more efficiently. Using kdeinit5 to launch KDE applications makes starting a typical KDE application a couple times faster and reduces memory consumption by a substantial amount. - But as far as I can tell only Dolphin reports a problem with that. I have not noticed Dolphin operation or that of any part of the desktop being affected at all by this, I would just like to avoid seeing those notifications. Of course, I would like to have a solution that would avoid the error in the first place, but - if that is not possible until a future update etc - I am mainly asking here for a way to simply make those notifications go away. --- I don't know how to debug this, or if the following is useful, but running kdeinit5 dolphin the file manager starts with the usual error while in terminal I get this: ~$ Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString. qt.accessibility.core: Cannot create accessible child interface for object: PlacesView(0x55d3d75565c0) index: 14 kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so' kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so' kf5.kio.trash: Root trash dir "/media/cip/DEPO/.Trash" exists but didn't pass the security checks, can't use it kf5.kio.trash: Directory "/media/cip/DEPO/.Trash-1000" exists but didn't pass the security checks, can't use it Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Could not find video stream decodeVideoFrame() failed: frame not finished KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kdeinit5 path = /usr/bin pid = 12077 KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/kdeinit5 thumbnail local:/run/user/1000/klauncherFKnizM.1.slave-socket local:/run/user/1000/dolphinFjEuPw.5.slave-socket KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi' from wrapper. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi' kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so' Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL

I'm using a dark theme in Debian, but the Dolphin file manager just ignores it. I have seen some examples of a dark theme in Dolphin, but I can't find a way to do it. I've seen some ways to set a background image, but of course that doesn't help me, because I would have black text on black background. From what I've seen I might need a KDE theme. I have found [this](https://store.kde.org/p/1005685/) , but it gives me a .qtcurve file. I looked up how to use it and [this page](https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-qtcurve-in-kde/) told me to use KDE system settings. Sounds weird, but ok, I installed the systemsettings package. But in the KDE system settings I only had the categories "shortcuts", "network settings" and "network connectivity". So I installed kde-config-gtk-style and it did indeed add the "application style" category to the KDE settings. There I first tried setting "BlackMATE" as the GTK2 and GTK3 theme, which did nothing. Then I tried importing the downloaded theme file, which didn't work, because it expected a .tar file. So I packed the theme file into a .tar archive (which seems weird, why would I need to do that?) and imported that, which made the settings window become unresponsive and then close itself. I guess it's not the sort of tar file it expects? When I click "download GTK2 themes" or "download GTK3 themes", it stays at "initialising" and does nothing. So how do I set a dark theme in Dolphin? Do I even need the KDE settings? Debian 9.5 Cinnamon 3.2.7 Dolphin 16.08.3

In Windows' explorer, the address bar has a refresh button: ![Windows explorer address bar screenshot, with refresh button highlighted ][2] This button refreshes the view of the open folder (directory). This is useful, for example, when some file operation has been finished elsewhere, but this particular window of explorer hasn't updated its view yet. How do I do the same in Dolphin, the default file browser in KDE?

I am setting up a new computer in my home. Both my old computer and my new one run various flavors of Ubuntu Linux, the new one Kubuntu 24.04.1, the old one Ubuntu 24.04.1. There are certain files on the old system that I want to copy to the new one. I have the sshd_config files set to permit access by my username with ChrootDirectory / I find the following situation occurring: running command-line sftp, I can connect to the other computer and successfully do cd /. Also, running FileZilla I can get to the root dir of the remote. However with Dolphin, though I can make an sftp://myname@remote connection, after entering the password, I can't go above /home/myname. Similarly, as an experiment I can make the reverse connection from the old computer to the new one. I also, though, cannot get above my home directory. How can I make this work, and in particular, if FileZilla and command-line sftp manage to do so, why can't Dolphin or Gnome Files do it?

I'm still relatively inexperienced in Linux and this is my first post here. I configured mdadm raid 10 far acording to archlinux RAID wiki page but with custom chunk size 64K. It contains 2 older identical hdds intended for use as data (documents, music, photo, movies, conf. backup and so on). I formated this raid to ext4 and added raid's filesystem UUID to fstab and mounted it as /home/dmk/data. Then I chown 1000:1000 the mountpoint. I'm on opensuse tumbleweed with KDE. In dolphin this data raid volume shows as removable, which is not desirable because I want to redirect user directories to my data raid and don't want an accidental disconnection when system runs. But in KDE plasma system tray, disk and devices, there is no removable device listed. Maybe it's only dolphin bug or what. So, I want to get rid of this remove option. I was looking in the dolphin settings with no luck, otherwise I think it's a linux issue. Can you please help me find a way to fix it and find a cause of this behavior? Edit: I have linux on 60G partition of 480G intel ssd and I formatted the rest of drive as data fast partition mainly for steam game data. This partition correctly shows in Dolphin as non removable. Edit 2: Here is my fstab:

UUID=a08f9faa-8142-415c-9ed7-6705237012b1  /                       ext4  defaults      0  1
UUID=b7d0abb1-cf05-45a7-ad4b-2ad4e3a68924  /boot                   ext4  data=ordered  0  2
UUID=84a98554-62fa-4582-b7d6-87a7ccd29ae7  /home/dmk/data\040fast  ext4  data=ordered  0  2
UUID=9d9edf73-fd37-49c9-aa3c-644113183558  /home/dmk/data          ext4  data=ordered  0  2

I used Synaptic to install the Dolphin file manager under my Parrot OS (home edition) and Dolphin displays every second line in the filename list with a black background, i.e. it is impossible to read the name of the file. Very strange. I am using a dark theme, but changing to a lighter theme does not seem to affect this anomaly in Dolphin. Also, my preferred one-click setting does not work with Dolphin, and I have not found a one-click option in Dolphin's settings. Perhaps Dolphin is not meant to be used with Parrot OS and Mate?

I use Fedora 40 KDE as my daily driver. I was thinking of a keyboard shortcut that would let me focus on the places list in the Dolphin file manager. Some would remind me of the key F9; however, what that does is show/hide the places option in the Dolphin. I am looking for a key map that would directly go to the places option. What I have been doing till now is using the mouse to hover over the places or keep hitting the tab button until I reach my desired option. Is there any shortcut to achieve what I am looking for?

When using Dolphin, I often end up with focus on the "Places" left-panel. Moving keyboard focus to the main file list is a horrible process, involving pressing Tab *once per entry in the location breadcrumbs bar*. Is there any keyboard shortcut to move focus directly to the file panel? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/361177/how-to-switch-pane-in-dolphin-using-keyboard explains how to move keyboard focus *between* the left/right pane, using Tab. However Tab does not move focus from Places to the file pane.

In my I3WM I love using KDE apps (especially dolphin), therefore I need to use qt6ct (as qt5ct isn't working at all). I also need the dark mode, and here comes the issue. ### Situation ### I have qt6ct, systemsettings, lxappearance... installed. I open dolphin and it appears with white background. I open qt6ct, and start pressing everywhere, after 20 (or so) buttons pressed, dolphin turns into a dark mode, but I have to repeat the proccess for every window I open. As you can see, it differs in the main zone:

$ cat ~/.config/qt6ct/qt6ct.conf
[Appearance]
color_scheme_path=/home/chelmi/.config/qt6ct/colors/dark.conf
custom_palette=true
icon_theme=breeze-dark
standard_dialogs=default
style=Breeze

[Fonts]
fixed="DejaVu LGC Sans,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1"
general="DejaVu LGC Sans,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1"

[Interface]
activate_item_on_single_click=1
buttonbox_layout=0
cursor_flash_time=1000
dialog_buttons_have_icons=1
double_click_interval=400
gui_effects=@Invalid()
keyboard_scheme=2
menus_have_icons=true
show_shortcuts_in_context_menus=true
stylesheets=/home/chelmi/.config/qt6ct/qss/dolphin_head.qss, /usr/share/qt6ct/qss/scrollbar-simple.qss
toolbutton_style=4
underline_shortcut=1
wheel_scroll_lines=3

[PaletteEditor]
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x3\0\0\0\0\x3h\0\0\x2&\0\0\x5\xe2\0\0\x4R\0\0\x3j\0\0\x2@\0\0\x5\xe0\0\0\x4P\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\a\x80\0\0\x3j\0\0\x2@\0\0\x5\xe0\0\0\x4P)

[QSSEditor]
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x3\0\0\0\0\x4o\0\0\x2\x18\0\0\x6\xf5\0\0\x4&\0\0\x4q\0\0\x2\x32\0\0\x6\xf3\0\0\x4$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\a\x80\0\0\x4q\0\0\x2\x32\0\0\x6\xf3\0\0\x4$)

[SettingsWindow]
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x3\0\0\0\0\x3\xc7\0\0\0\f\0\0\x5\x99\0\0\x4\x10\0\0\x3\xc8\0\0\0\r\0\0\x5\x98\0\0\x4\xf\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\a\x80\0\0\x3\xc8\0\0\0\r\0\0\x5\x98\0\0\x4\xf)

[Troubleshooting]
force_raster_widgets=1
ignored_applications=@Invalid()


$ cat ~/.config/qt6ct/qss/dolphin_head.qss
QWidget {
    color: #ffffff;
    background-color: #282c34;
}
QScrollBar {
    background: #323640;
    width: 15px;
}


$ cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
include "/home/chelmi/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
gtk-theme-name="Adapta-Nokto-Maia"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-Dark-Maia"
gtk-font-name="Cantarell 11"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="Maia-Cursor"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"


$ cat ~/.config/kdeglobals
[...]
[General]
ColorScheme=Maia Dark
[Icons]
Theme=Papirus-Dark-Maia
[KDE]
LookAndFeelPackage=org.kde.oxygen

I thought that systemsettings or lxappearance could be the reason for this failing, but I cannot resolve how. ### Edit ### Here is a video of what is actually happening.

When hitting enter (or double-clicking) an executable shell script (a ".sh" file, for instance), it would be nice if this would launch the script inside a console window. I am using the Dolphin file manager, and KDE with Debian 11. While there are many ways to open, launch, and execute scripts, but nothing that does this one simple thing. When tapping enter on an executable shell script, the box below is displayed: * "Open" will incorrectly "open the script" using the console app *(result is that the console window opens, but nothing happens)* * "Execute" will correctly run the script *(result is that the script runs, but the console window never opens, and output is not shown unless it is redirected to a file)* When right-clicking an executable script, the following menu is shown: * "Open with Konsole" will incorrectly "open the script" using the console app *(result is that the console window opens, but nothing happens)* * **"Run in Konsole" is perfect!** ***(script is both opened AND run inside a new console window, and output is shown on-screen)*** The question is: **How can I achieve the "Run in Konsole" action using the Enter key on the keyboard?** *That's the real problem here: using the mouse to right-click and pick over and over is tiresome.* Apparently, this used to be possible in the Thunar file manager until recently (the feature was removed). Most other threads I have found on this topic all require the right-mouse-button: * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/233864/461964 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/326114/461964 Any advice or guidance is appreciated.

When running the Dolphin emulator from the stable Debian repos in Debian 12 with KDE I get the below error. However, no error is shown on a nearly identical machine where Dolphin emulator works fine. I already tried removing and then reinstalling dolphin-emu but I still get the same error. libllvm13 is the oldest version that is available in the repos. Installing that didn't help. There is no llvm-libs in the repos that's recommended in another question similar to this. It looks like in the machine where it works I have llvm11 installed locally (not from the repos) but llvm is not in the Debian repos. Bug report 1 When I run env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb dolphin-emu it shows: dolphin-emu: error while loading shared libraries: libLLVM-11.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Update: it does work in Lutris (if the environment variable is configured in the Dolphin settings) so that's a workaround as is [compiling Dolphin](https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/wiki/Building-for-Linux) . Update: after updating the Dolphin runner in Lutris the Dolphin runner doesn't work anymore either: it shows this in the console: /home/username/.local/share/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and I only have the .59 package . That's probably a bug in Lutris (?). Dolphin can be started when changing the executable to /usr/games/dolphin-emu in the Lutris settings for Dolphin.

So, once again, I performed an innocent-looking action in Linux, and not I can't put it back the way it was before. The other day, I was trying to find something in the file system. (Usually, I use Dolphin, but this guide said I could find it more easily in Nautilus/Files in gnome.) While inside the "Files" app, I clicked on "Other Locations", and one of my hard disks was listed there. After clicking on it, I was prompted to mount that partition. I did not want to mount it, as it is one of the boot partitions, and was already mounted. But now, each time I restart the computer, the same prompt pops up on login. I have mounted it, and unmounted it. Everything is fine, it just mounts the already exisiting "/boot" partition to "/media/$USERNAME" which is silly and unnecessary. I have: * looked through Autostart * looked through my list of devices * modified "/etc/fstab" and added this particular UUID with the "noauto" option Nothing seems to change, either good or bad. **How can I find this location and get rid of the prompt on each login?** *(The removable devices panel was interesting, as it had this trouble partition all by itself under "Attached Devices", but I cannot seem to make any changes here, or mark it to NOT be automatically mounted.)*

In running XFCE In Dolphin I wish to have a right click context menu, says myPythonScript, that will run the python script with directory and path as python sys.argv, sys.argv In Thunar to run it, I created a customs action as: python myPythonScript %d %n How can I do that under Dolphin? I tried under .local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ to create a file called righClickTest.desktop which content is: [Desktop Entry] Type=Service X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=all/all; Actions=rightClick; Encoding=UTF-8 [Desktop Action rummage] Name=rightClick Exec=python %d %n But I do not see my rightclick menu. Thanks

I like to watch DVDs on my computer, I am using KDE Plasma 6.1.3. There is no option to play the DVD through VLC Media Player or something of the sorts. I didnt find a way to add this option through regular means, like installing a package, I already got kio-fuse, kio-extras, dolphin-plugins etc. https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/ I found this through my searches, adding my own service menu seemed like a fair option. Though I could not find the Mime Type for DVDs; on this list (https://www.digipres.org/formats/mime-types/) I found video/dvd but it doesnt do the trick, the menu doesnt show. I also tried applying it to directories, thinking I might get recognized as directory, but it didnt work. Any idea would I could do? Thanks

I've been tackling a project more seriously lately, a project that probably every Linux dev goes through at some point - dotfiles management. KDE (and it's applications) has a history of resisting having it's configuration files being managed in a version control system. That is because KDE's config files are not exactly gathered all in one place and they are also not intended to be manually edited, i.e. they are autogenerated. Here is a git repo listing some of KDE's own config files: https://github.com/shalva97/kde-configuration-files And when trying to configure specific applications like Konsole we also have a few, for example ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/konsole/konsoleui.rc
~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/konsole/sessionui.rc
~/.local/share/knewstuff3/konsole.knsregistry although I am not sure at all on what these do, more importantly though there is also:
~/.config/konsolerc
and the profile specific config files location in:
~/.local/share/konsole/
in which also Konsole colorscheme files are located. I have put the profile and colorscheme files in my repo, but for konsolerc that wouldn't work, as it changes depending on stuff like what my display setup is for example. But there is an alternative: using the command kwriteconfig5 or kwriteconfig6 (depending on if using plasma5 or plasma6) you can generate the file. This works-ish. There are some settings I must have missed, as Konsole does not look quite the same on all my machines. How do then distros like Manjaro, Kubuntu or OpenSUSE customize their KDE versions, do they use something like konsave (https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave) to export all KDE settings or do they use kwriteconfig, or some other way entirely? Or more generally speaking, where can you find some documentation on commands like kwriteconfig, KDE config files and/or other customization options? In the future I would like to version control (or generate using a script) the config files for Dolphin and qt theming, but it's really hard to find out where you can find stuff like that.