Im running Cachy OS and have all the latest updates for KDE which relkeased the other day. Dolphin ver 25.08.0. Since this update the right click menu no longer appeared. After some poking around I discovered that if I disabled dual pane on launch the right click menu works again. But I like to have dual panes. If dual panes are enabled after launch the right click menu still works. It just seems to break if launching Dolphin in dual pane mode.
Im not sure if its a bug on my system or if it is a Dolphin bug.
I created a new user and set some of the same settings as I have them configured and yes context menu still works. Which settings should I copy across from the new account to my main? Or even just delete to fix this issue.
# brute force troubleshooting...
mv ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# logout and log back in again to force plasma to recreate the folder with default settings
dolphin --split ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# copy back half of the BORKED folder contents at a time and relog to see if issue returns
# if it does, then delete the folder again, relog, and only copy half of that previous half
# repeat until the culprit is found, then finally, copy back everything BUT that culprit bit
if you can identify the file or the entry in the file that is being recreated after deletion fixed the problem then please file a bug report bugs.kde.org and include the details you found.
i use this command line to help me find files that have been changed in the last minute
# to find files modified <1m ago in $HOME, excluding the noisy ~/snap and ~.cache directories
find -not \( -path './snap' -prune \) -not \( -path './.cache' -prune \) -type f -mmin -1 -printf "%C+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -10
I have been struggling with this bug, and I think I’ve made progress on the cause:
In the Dolphin options, if I have both of these options set:
“Show on startup” chosen to be my home folder, instead of “folders … from last time”
“Begin in split view mode” enabled,
then I cannot right click in Dolphin when I start it until I activate some other window and return to the Dolphin window. (And there are other flabbergasting issues, like if I select multiple files in the left pane and press Delete, the files are not deleted, but instead “Selection Mode” is enabled in the other pane.)
If either of those two options are different, I don’t have the bug. It’s only when both options are set that way.
I have the exact same problem - the right click, the random selection mode in the other pane. However “Show on startup” for me is already set to “folders … from last time” and “Begin in split view mode” is disabled and changing them does not affect the problem.
I have found out that the problem disappears when I press TAB and appears again when I go to another Dolphin tab with split view
