First I verified in “Dolphin settings-View” : radio button checked: use style for all folders.
Then I changed “Further or Additional (I’ve the german version) - View - modify view style”.
View mode: I select details
View setting: show preview: I unchecked.
After OK view changed as expected.
I closed dolphin, opened again, and the previous view was used, i.e. using previews and symbols.
What I’m doing wrong? What must I do? Can I help somehow?
Best Regards
Guenter Alzinger
You did click apply, right?
In which folder ?
What is your Dolphin version ?
This works for me for ~/Downloads with Dolphin 26.04.
You can use the following command to see what settings for the folder for key user.kde.fm.viewproperties#1:
getfattr --dump ~/folder
I’m having the same issue. When I change the view settings (specifically disable grouping) and click apply, the output of getfattr --dump ~/folder doesn’t change, and it shows grouping is still enabled.
Only once the folder is closed, not accessed anymore, this is saved IIRC.
Close dolphin and check then.
In which folder ? I am asking because some folders have built-in different settings, that are supposed to be overwritten if the user changes them.
I have already tried that. I have narrowed it down to happening ONLY when I both deactivate grouping AND change sorting from descending to ascending. Either change by itself makes it save properly. But when setting both at once or both one at a time, it reverts to the previous setup with sorting set to descending and grouping enabled once both settings are set.
I eventually used setfattr to manually set it to what I wanted, and that worked and as long as I don’t change the view properties from within dolphin, it stays.
Getting a similar issue after recently restoring my files (filesystem grenaded from bad RAM) so Dolphin is working from an existing configuration.
It’s happening specifically with just the Home folder for some reason while everything else is using the default view I prefer.
> getfattr --dump ~
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/carlen
user.kde.fm.viewproperties#1="[Dolphin]\012GroupedSorting=true\012SortFoldersFirst=false\012SortOrder=1\012SortRole=modificationtime\012Timestamp=2026,9,10,12,15,36.566\012Version=4\012ViewMode=1\012VisibleRoles=Details_text,CustomizedDetails\012"
sion=4\\012ViewMode=1\\012Visibl
eRoles=Details_text,CustomizedDetails\\012"
> getfattr --dump ~/Documents
[…Nothing…]
Attempting to remove it doesn’t work either.
[…Navigate away from home in Dolphin first…]
> setfattr --remove=user.kde.fm.viewproperties#1 ~
> getfattr --dump ~
[…Nothing…]
[…Navigate back to home in Dolphin…]
> getfattr --dump ~
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/carlen
user.kde.fm.viewproperties#1="[…]"
I’ve also heard the logic for the view settings when saving is that the file attributes are the differences from the global which might explain @alk’s case, where if I set the view settings to match the global it just drops the entire file attribute before Dolphin restores it when visiting the folder again.
I set the view close to what I want before using setfattr with the values hand-tweaked to get around the issue.