ID: I202606271100
Status: idea
Tags: Arch Linux, Dolphin file explorer

fix dolphin default apps

I had the issue where dolphin didn’t want to open with my default apps. I fixed it by following this guide that I found in this reddit thread:

I did follow these steps and I struggled in getting the ‘applications.menu’ file, so I would like to share how I did solve the issue from this checkpoint.

First try running this command: kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental If it does print this output → “applications.menu” not found in QList(”~/.config/menus”, “/etc/xdg/menus”), you will need to get this file.

To get the applications.menu file, install this package: sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-xdg-menu Then run this command to generate the file: sudo update-desktop-database As the file name differs you need to change the file name

cd /etc/xdg/menus
ls

expected output → “arch-applications.menu”

sudo mv arch-applications.menu applications.menu

Then run again this command and it should work fine

kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

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