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How I can install Dolphin on XFCE

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:25 am MX Package Installer > MX Test Repo tab.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:40 amPreview on menu.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:55 am Try this Control>General, Preview tab and check the box next to Folders.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:17 am I do get folder previews but I do have KDE Standard installed, although I do not use KDE. Perhaps there is a support library or app required.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:29 am Did you use MX package Installer> Popular Apps>Desktop Environment and install KDE Standard? If so I have gone as far as I can for a solution.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:40 am I doubt it is because of the virtual machine. I am using the same Dolphin version. Just for verification, since you installed KDE Standard and it may have overwritten the original configuration, try going through the same steps with the Control config you did before.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:46 am I would just do the dolphin config on the one you have now over again. Control>General, Preview tab and check the box next to Folders.

rasat wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:03 am Here how I solved related to Dolphin
viewtopic.php?f=108&t=48118

rasat wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:17 pm Check if you can change default application for file manager to Dolphin.

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:00 amhere it is

denis12 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:14 pm

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:00 amhere it is

When you choose upload files in web-browser ( for example upload img) what you see Dolphin or Thunar?

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:34 pm

denis12 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:14 pm

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:00 amhere it is

When you choose upload files in web-browser ( for example upload img) what you see Dolphin or Thunar?

Not sure but I believe it is an internal XFCE dialog and not a file manager dialog, so not Thunar or Dolphin.

So it is not possible to solve this? Why answer only ? Where are people who use MX Linux. It is most popular distro in world. Maybe there are chat MX Linux?

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:51 pm I've not been following this, but did OP use Preferred Applications to set the default File Manager?

denis12 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:38 pm

richb wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:34 pm

denis12 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:14 pm
When you choose upload files in web-browser ( for example upload img) what you see Dolphin or Thunar?

Not sure but I believe it is an internal XFCE dialog and not a file manager dialog, so not Thunar or Dolphin.

So it is not possible to solve this? Why answer only ? Where are people who use MX Linux. It is most popular distro in world. Maybe there are chat MX Linux?

rasat wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:07 pm I am using Gnome, had a similar problem. This how it was solved.

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sudo apt-get install exo-utils
sudo apt-get install xfce4-settings

Run: xfce4-settings-manager
<Preferred Applications><Utilities><File Manager>

Before installing, try:
Run: xfce4-settings-manager
<Preferred Applications><Utilities><File Manager>

EDIT
Doesn't work with "Save As"... it opens Thunar. Works when downloading.... click stratus bar in Chromium.

sudo apt-get install exo-utils
[sudo] password for den: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
exo-utils is already the newest version (0.10.7-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
den@mx:~
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
xfce4-settings is already the newest version (4.12.3-1~mx17+1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Stevo wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:27 pm Though others handed you the answer, you could have found those in Synaptic by searching in the Quick Search for
"kde thumbnail". There are a few that you haven't installed, and you must still enable those previews in Dolphin's settings. You might also want to apply some more tips and tricks: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/01/tips- ... e-manager/

Nautilus has an unofficial extension that allows for thumbnails on folder icons. I don't find anything for other filemanagers, even polo-gtk.

I don't think MX has the largest installed base in the Linux world by far. We still have a long ways to go to catch up to more established distros. We just are getting the most click-throughs at Distrowatch.

Stevo wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:04 pm Thumbnails for folder contents are just not enough of a killer feature to justify using a non-XFCE file manager, speaking as one of the developers. I do use Dolphin on XFCE myself, though, and have packaged the KDE epub thumbnailer for MX that no other Debian-based distro had at the time.

Adrian, another MX developer, does have KDE respins of MX that work quite well.

Stevo wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:41 pm No, I have it working in Virtual Box. Here's a screenshot. Note that I have Previews clicked on in the top menu--if I click it off, then there are no previews, just icons. Also note the thumbnail on the vulkan folder after I put a jpg into it.

sunrat wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 8:12 pm For video thumbnails you need the package ffmpegthumbs installed. Then enable it in the Preview section of "Configure Dolphin" and switch Previews on in the Menu bar.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:36 am Dolphin itself can be installed on the MX Test Repo tab of the Package Installer--or maybe you know that already.

sudo apt-get install exo-utils

exo-preferred-applications -c

jretropie wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:52 am I just install MX linux 19.1.

There's no option to selection Dolphin under MX test Repo tab.

So I installed install KDE Standard.

How do I set dolphin to default file manager? When I click a folder on desktop, it still open up old thunar.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:36 am Dolphin itself can be installed on the MX Test Repo tab of the Package Installer--or maybe you know that already.

jretropie wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:24 am I installed Dolphin but it doesn't following the theme from MX Linux. I need the dark theme.

richb wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:10 am

jretropie wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:24 am I installed Dolphin but it doesn't following the theme from MX Linux. I need the dark theme.

You would need to install the system settings for KDE and dependent applications. You could then set the dolphin theme and colors. However it is a bit tricky as you could end up with odd results. You have to remember that dolphin is not an XFCE application but a KDE one.