KDE file manager problem

[wizard10000]

Why not just
export EDITOR=nano

That's what I thought as well, but when you get back at a PC there's a pretty good discussion here -

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...the-difference

Apparently the two variables have different meanings in bash; both of them are text editors and bash apparently calls $VISUAL and if that fails, calls $EDITOR.

I probably shouldn't mention there's also a $SYSTEMD_EDITOR variable in there

[GreyGeek]

Why not just
export EDITOR=nano



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[wizard10000]

sudoedit gives a vi terminal ,,,,,,,,,,,,,guess I must learn vi ?

You can change it to nano in ~/.bashrc - add this:

export VISUAL=nano
export EDITOR="$VISUAL"

edit: I don't know whose environment sudoedit uses, so you may need to change /root/.bashrc as well.

[vinnywright]

ok ,,,so I got upgraded to kate-17.03.90 today ,,,,,,,,,,no more using Kate with sudo to edit root files ;(

sudoedit gives a vi terminal ,,,,,,,,,,,,,guess I must learn vi ?

however Krusaders built it advanced text editor will edit root files (wile in root mode),,,,,,,,for now.

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Ah, like this!


Thanks!

[kubicle]

Does that setup behave like Dolphin? When you click on a directory in the left panel does it open the listing of the contents in the right panel? Mine doesn't.

Does your visible panel have focus (the hidden panel still exists and if it has focus, it follows your tree-view clicks...and not the visible panel). press "Tab" or click on the visible panel to witch focus.

[GreyGeek]

The panes are resizable, and you can make one or the other 100% width, effectively giving you a "single panel"...both panels also support individual tree view panes, so you can make krusader have a "treeview+single panel" look if you prefer.

You can create a profile for it (and make it the start profile)...and you'd probably want to save the panel settings in krusader configuration, but krusader is really configurable.

EDIT: obligatory screenshot added:

Does that setup behave like Dolphin? When you click on a directory in the left panel does it open the listing of the contents in the right panel? Mine doesn't.

[kubicle]

I skimmed through the thing looking for a way to turn krusader single-pane for you

The panes are resizable, and you can make one or the other 100% width, effectively giving you a "single panel"...both panels also support individual tree view panes, so you can make krusader have a "treeview+single panel" look if you prefer.

You can create a profile for it (and make it the start profile)...and you'd probably want to save the panel settings in krusader configuration, but krusader is really configurable.

EDIT: obligatory screenshot added:

[wizard10000]

I liked vinny's method of coloring icons better than my idea of coloring background, so check it out -

[wizard10000]

Start with 'kdesudo dbus-run-session konqueror'

This is (sort of) the way I start dolphin as root. I was still not happy with the result using kdesudo so I symlinked kdesu into /usr/bin and running dolphin as root works the way I want it to when used with dbus-run-session.

wizard@wizard-laptop:/usr/bin$ ls -la kdesu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 25 11:42 kdesu -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu

On identifying applications run as root, my ~/.bashrc uses a green prompt where root's is red and with the gooey applications in KDE the color scheme I use is *slightly* different.

In "View Background" my user's color is #eaeaeb (slightly off-white) while root's color scheme uses #f7e7ff (just enough pink that you notice it).

edit: My ~/.config/kdesurc is also a little different based on recommendations I got here. When I do 'kdesudo dbus-run-session dolphin' I get no icons but it works just fine with kdesu.

[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo

edit v2.0: Using kdesu instead of kdesudo also causes krusader to theme correctly for me. I have no idea why as I copied krusader's config from my home directory to root's

[oshunluvr]

That fixes the protocol died error when launching kdesudo dolphin from the Desktop. Thanks!

Yeah, I just discovered that this week.

[GreyGeek]

did you reboot,,,,I had to

VINNY

yup

[Snowhog]

Try adding this to /etc/environment:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="KDE"

That fixes the protocol died error when launching kdesudo dolphin from the Desktop. Thanks!

[oshunluvr]

Try adding this to /etc/environment:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="KDE"

[vinnywright]

No. When I navigated to any Places location, I got the protocol died error.

O ,,,thats right , sorry

VINNY