In this post (somewhat short, by the way) I will show how to solve the problem that we can present when Dolphin (the KDE file manager) does not want to show the embedded terminal, which allows the use of command in the current directory of the file manager without need to resort to another terminal emulator.
This arose from the fact that I decided to upgrade my Archlinux from 32-bit to 64-bit (x86 to x64) and also switch to "KDE 5" (plasma 5), so when the process was finished, I opened Dolphin and I came across a not very pleasant surprise, the terminal was not showing and everything was gray where it should be. Thus:
So I thought it was a problem in some package that Dolphin uses for this purpose, so I searched the Internet and found this page that was talking about Plasma 5: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-5-plasma-5-2-0-available-for-slackware-current/.
In the comments there were users who had the same problems and talked about the following package: «yakuake»; I found that it is a KDE terminal emulator and it is the program that Dolphin uses to display its terminal. In Archlinux these two packages need to be installed:
pacman -S yakuake konsolepart4
After installing them, restart Dolphin and the embedded terminal should now be displayed as before:
I hope it has helped you, especially those who are switching from KDE4 to Plasma 5, since the latter still has some problems but it works much better than version 4.
Very good! It worked perfect.
I also get the impression that the problem has to do with mixing versions of Dolphin and Konsole. Now I am with Manjaro and I have Dolphin from KDE 4.X series and Konsole from KDE 5.X series. Possibly when Dolphin is updated alongside Konsole, that problem does not appear.
I say this because without having Yakuake, the embedded terminal always worked for me. And I have encountered this problem before when instead of updating the whole system I decided to just update Dolphin, for example. When I update Konsole alongside Dolphin, the problem is fixed (without Yakuake).
Anyway, I don't know how the hand is coming this time, because Yakuake really solves the problem.
I'm glad you it worked. Regarding the Konsole version, it may be that it is a conflict between versions, most likely in Dolphin 5.x they will fix the problem, because even if Yakuake solves the problem, it may fail in future versions of KDE, because as I saw on the project page (https://extragear.kde.org/apps/yakuake), Yakuake have not updated it since 2012. But for now, something is something.
what was missing was konsolepart4 since the konsole version that is installed is the kde 5 version and dolphin is still the kde 4 version 🙁 hopefully the rest of the applications will arrive at kf5 soon
I also think the same, but I could not check it because Yakuake and konsolepart4 depend on each other when they are going to be installed in archlinux.
sorry but not the only dependencies of konsolepart4 in arch are the following
kdebase-lib
kdebase-runtime
automoc4 (make)
cmake (make)
one more thing Yakuake is already being ported to kf5
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yakuake-frameworks-git/
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/utils/yakuake/repository/show?rev=frameworks
Yes, German is right. I just uninstalled Yakuake on Manjaro and everything is still working fine. Then all you have to do is:
sudo pacman -S konsolepart4
Sorry, does anyone know how to solve the video thumbnails and the integration with dropbox in dolphin with kde 5?
Try reinstalling these packages: ffmpegthumbnailer and kdemultimedia-ffmpegthumbs. It has happened to me with a matte box, but in dolphin it has not happened to me.
For when an article with the best applications X categories? The last one is from years ago.
Obliged, deu certo.