Dolphin startup folder

[James Richard Tyrer]

Peter Lewis wrote:
> On Friday 06 Mar 2009 James Richard Tyrer sent:
> 
>> Peter Lewis wrote:
>>> Dolphin always starts in ~/Documents but I would prefer it to start at
>>> the root of my home directory.
>>>
>>> I have tried every way that I can find to change this, Dolphin
>>> Preferences - Startup is set to my home folder, but it will not budge
>>> from Documents.
>>>
>>> Please help, its driving me nuts.
>> Ahhhhh?  Did you try the configuration dialog (KCM) in Dolphin:
>>
>> 	Settings -> Configure Dolphin
>>
>> in the Dolphin menu.
> 
> Yes, that invokes the "Dolphin Preferences" dialogue mentioned above. I set 
> the startup to my home folder but it still comes up in ~/Documents
> 
This is a bug then -- but it appears to be your bug, since it works 
correctly for me in 4.2.1.  I suggest that you upgrade and see if that 
resolves the problem.

Possible source of the problem is that to make this change, you have to 
have ownership & write permission to: $HOME/.kde4/share/config (7??).

Check the file: $HOME/.kde4/share/config/dolphinrc and see what:

	[General]
	HomeUrl=

is set to.

There is another possibility, although I can't reproduce it.  KDE-4 does 
use the XDG User Directories and it is possible that this is what is 
causing the problem.

-- 
JRT

Linux (mostly) From Scratch

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