[Bug 157166] Re: [gutsy] Cannot change default file manager from Dolphin

Luke Plant L.Plant.98 at cantab.net
Fri Jan 4 14:11:01 UTC 2008


OK, I have got to the bottom of this, at least for me.

File associations, I finally discovered, are stored in
~/.kde/share/config/profilerc.  Somehow, that file had become owned by
'root'.  I do not know how that occurred -- I do not remember doing
anything that might have caused this e.g. running Konqueror as root, and
then changing file associations.  I don't know if I have *ever* run
konqueror as root -- I'm a shell person.  But anyway...

The work around is to do this in a terminal:

sudo chown yourusername ~/.kde/share/config/profilerc

(replacing 'yourusername' with your actual login name).

After this, file associations work fine.  Regarding Dolphin.  I also had
to change my 'Win+Home' shortcut to use Konqueror (I cannot remember if
I had changed this to be Dolphin myself or if it was changed for me) -
do this under "System Settings --> Keyboard and mouse --> Keyboard
Shortcuts", and in the "Command Shortcuts" tab change the shortcut from
'Dolphin' to 'Home folder', which was under 'Lost & found" for me.

There is still definitely a bug here, even if it was my own error that
caused that file ownership to change -- when file associations are saved
to the profilerc file, there should be an error message if the file
could not be written to.

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[gutsy] Cannot change default file manager from Dolphin
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