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A replacement for dolphin that can look just as pretty? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Moved to using KDE recently and it's everything I've ever wanted in aesthetics and customization. Unfortunately, dolphin doesn't refresh when files are moved around and while I tried to accept it, I just can't. Showing me where files are is literally the only job of a file manager.

Are there any other file managers that can take all the themes and colors in KDE? I love having a full theme but I can't stand this manual refresh thing.

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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have the same issue on all four machines that use Dolphin. I've accepted having to hit F5 to refresh and I'm not looking to switch file managers, but if there is a fix I'd love to implement it!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Copying my comment to OP below - it might be worth checking:

    Check your inotify maximums - this is the system which monitors directory contents and notifies applications of changes. These maximums used to be pretty low, but should be high enough for most users these days. Do you tend to work with multiple directories containing lots of files?

    See what you get when you run these two commands:

    sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances

    You can increase them temporarily like so and see if it helps:

    sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1024

    If it does help, add to /etc/sysctl.conf (or a file in /etc/sysctl.d/).

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