lately I’ve noticed that Dolphin doesn’t retain all of its settings.
Everytime I start Dolphin, the panels that are shown (“Places” (F9) and “Information” (F11)) are resized to their minimum width. This happens for all other panels as well.
I think it started happening after I experimented with the “Startup” setting under: Configure → Startup → Show on startup (folders, tabs… or location) but I’m not sure.
Changing this setting back and forth didn’t fix it.
Unfortunately, I don’t have direct feedback for a solution, but only my opinion.
I have TW with KDE Plasma (not using Wayland) on a laptop and desktop, with no issues with Dolphin (over the years).
I configure Dolphin only using the quick icons on the toolbar (my terminology) and have not spent any time in the “Configure” settings. A couple of screenshots below shows my layout
Is your system up to date? Seems not.
Dolphin 23.08.2 was actual in October 2023! Since Dec 2023 Tumbleweed is on Dolphin-23.08.4-1.2
This is the version from September 2023!
So please upgrade your system to the latest Tumbleweed snapshot first before trying to troubleshoot stuff…
It is unlikely that somebody else uses such an outdated and unsecure system…
Yeah I’m on Wayland, and had no probs with Dolphin until I tweaked some of those settings. It’s hard to recall exactly what triggered it.
Guess I was hoping to find some hidden config file (other than ~/.config/dolphinrc or ~/.local/share/dolphin) that got corrupted or something.
Not really a big issue anyway, just annoying to manually drag those panels out each time.
Then I renamed (using mv command) that file as “dolphinstaterc.hold”.
I started up Dolphin and it showed up as if this was the first time it was launched, so very obvious this is Dolphin’s config file (well, for me it is - I use KDE Plasma with X11). A new dolphinstaterc was created.
Then I deleted the new dolphinstaterc and then renamed dolphinstaterc.hold back to dolphinstaterc and started Dolphin up and it showed up as I had last configured it to be.
