Solution : install thunar Dolphin is under constant development and their software engineers have a vision how a file manager should work. At some point in time they decided that security wise it is not opportune to open up a file manager -- dolphin as root. The...
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42 setting icons in dolphin and thunar filemanager – why is thunar in Plasma
We see a pop-up from discord. It wants to update and asks what to do. We install the update with: update sudo pacman -S discord We discuss the new arcolinux-mirrorlist-git but it was already up-to-date. The packages are now coming from the new dataserver. We forgot to...
40 Updating Plasma to stay rolling and adding services to our file manager dolphin like meld
Updating is always necessary to keep rolling. Since this is a 18.11 version I needed to update to a 18.12 version. There are other video's that explain that as well on ArcoLinux and other ISO's. You can see it in the release article as well. But the point of the...
27 How to add root services to dolphin on plasma
On Xfce and other desktops it is possible to "take actions with root level". That is possible too on Plasma BUT you need to install a service for that. yay -S kde-servicemenus-rootactions This package will come from the AUR and its origin is on store.kdg.org. The...
11 Single click or double click to open files and folders in Plasma
This was surely one of the nuisances I experienced at first on Plasma. Why? Because we were accustomed to another workflow on the other desktops. That is all it is. A personal preference.If you want to able to click a file or folder to be able to select it...