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I've recently came back to Ubuntu from Kubuntu, but I really like Dolphin. Is there any way how to set it up as default file manager?

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This link should help you to change the file manager. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager

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Thanks, I visited that page, but it seemed too difficult. Fortunately thanks to your advice I checked it again and there is a one-line command (exo-preferred-applications). – cloxy Dec 3 '11 at 20:32
Love the "One more way - for "mousemonkeys", like me" solution :) – JoZ3 Feb 15 '12 at 18:49
Actually this script only works for setting thunar as default. If you want to set Dolphin as default it is a little more involved than this. This script only alters the .desktop files in the /usr/applications folder but dolphin by default works with the konsole terminal so you will run into tons of problems by making it default. many of it's functions will not work and I don't know the work arounds. – Joshua Robison Jul 27 '12 at 9:56
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I used the option exo-preferred-applications to set up Dolphin as the default and everything went smoothly. I had Konsole already installed by the way. – Gabriel Jul 30 '12 at 17:21
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Steps:

  1. Open a terminal, e.g. using Ctrl+Alt+T

  2. Install exo-utils by running the following command in the terminal:

    sudo apt-get install exo-utils

  3. Run the following command in the terminal:

    exo-preferred-applications

  4. In the window that opens, click on Utilities

  5. On the File Manager section, click the drop-down menu arrow + Other...

  6. Find /usr/share/applications directory

  7. Adjust to show all files and select dolphin.desktop (wherever you find it)

  8. Click close

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