Dolphin has started opening ~Documents as the default directory.
This is not the behavior I want, I want it to open in my home directory. No matter what I try, it will not change.
Does anyone have an idea how I can go about getting Dolphin to behave like a file manager should?
OK, I figured I would give it a day before bumping the thread.
I still haven’t found a resolution to my problem.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:16:02 GMT
brucecadieux <brucecadieux@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Dolphin has started opening ~Documents as the default directory.
>
> This is not the behavior I want, I want it to open in my home
> directory. No matter what I try, it will not change.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can go about getting Dolphin to behave
> like a file manager should?
>
>
Open Dolphin
click on “Settings”
click on “Configure Dolphin…”
Click on “General” (left pane)
two choices:
Click on “Apply”
Click on “Ok”
Dolphin should start in desired ‘home’ directory as set.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:01:44 GMT
L R Nix <lornix@lornix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:16:02 GMT
> brucecadieux <brucecadieux@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Dolphin has started opening ~Documents as the default directory.
> >
> > This is not the behavior I want, I want it to open in my home
> > directory. No matter what I try, it will not change.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea how I can go about getting Dolphin to behave
> > like a file manager should?
> >
> >
>
> Open Dolphin
> click on “Settings”
> click on “Configure Dolphin…”
> Click on “General” (left pane)
>
> two choices:
> 1. Click on “Use Default Location”, which will put “File:///home/youruser”
> in the Location field.
> 2. Click in Location field, enter “~” or “File:///home/youruser”
>
> Click on “Apply”
> Click on “Ok”
>
> Dolphin should start in desired ‘home’ directory as set.
>
> Loni
>
If Dolphin persists following this, check the link you’re using to start
dolphin… if may have “~Documents” appended as an argument, causing dolpin
to start in the given subdirectory.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Been there done that 100 times, even went into the hidden config settings and checked and the settings there even say it should be opening to my home directory.
Even went so far as to delete .kde and .kde4, along with all files in /tmp and reboot the system, only to have the same weird thing happen.
I just can’t figure it out.
I even created a new user account figuring I could just copy my data over and delete the old account, but that account is behaving the same way. 
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:26:01 GMT
brucecadieux <brucecadieux@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Been there done that 100 times, even went into the hidden config
> settings and checked and the settings there even say it should be
> opening to my home directory.
>
> Even went so far as to delete .kde and .kde4, along with all files in
> /tmp and reboot the system, only to have the same weird thing happen.
>
> I just can’t figure it out.
>
> I even created a new user account figuring I could just copy my data
> over and delete the old account, but that account is behaving the same
> way.
>
>
{shrug} well, you didn’t mention it in your post, so have to start somewhere.
Have you updated your system lately? There might be a bug with Dolphin in
KDE 4.x that was resolved recently. Of course, I could fall back on the old
saw of “KDE 4.x is still new and somewhat buggy…”.
You’re saying that when you click on something, it opens dolphin, and dolphin
shows “~Documents” initially?
or does it show something, but when you hit “HOME”, it goes to “~Documents”?
What are you clicking on to start Dolphin?
Have you tried starting Dolphin from a konsole?
Please describe the problem you’re having.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
When I open dolphin through the console it opens to ~Documents
When I click the Dolphin icon in the menu or in the taskbar it opens to ~Documents
I am simply baffled.
I have been a bit put off by KDE4, and seriously disliked it, but because I can’t bring myself to use Gnome, I have decided to get used to KDE4.
Yep it can be buggy, but the factory repo has been stable, no crashes, nothing seriously wrong, and I am getting used to it.
Other then this one oddity with Dolphin everything has been running fast, stable and dependable.
Just don’t know what the hell is up with Dolphin not opening to the home directory, even though every setting says it should and every config file I can find has /home/bruce listed correctly.
Try updating the 4.1 installation from the KDE4:/factory repository. Packages in this repository are updated almost everyday, so a bug of the sort could have been there when you installed the packages from this repository.
I just said I was using the factory repo. 
look here - maybe this helps
‘[Bug 166088] Unable to change home directory in dolphin’ - MARC](http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=121923327400430&w=2)
Thank You. I will remember that for the future.
However after several days of messing with it and trying to find a fix, I simply installed fresh, and copied mt data back in. All is good now, but if it ever happens again I know there is at least something that will save me the aggravation.