Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin confusing different run instances.

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:54:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
> 
> I use Dolphin a lot.  I like it and all but recently, it started doing
> something that annoys me.  When I'm doing something, I tend to open a
> instance of Dolphin for whatever it is I'm doing.  I also leave
> instances open and ready for when I do routine things.  Some things I do
> so often, I leave them open all the time.  Usually that is four
> instances.  If needed, for example when I'm getting videos off trail
> cameras, I open another instance until I'm done with that task.  So, I
> use Dolphin for different things on different desktops with tabs in
> different places.  It just makes things easier, faster and works best
> for me. 
> 
> What I don't like is this, when I open a new instance, it tries to copy
> the last instance I used that is still open.  When I open a new
> instance, I want it to open where I want but not be affected by other
> instances that are running.  Just as a example.  Yesterday I was trying
> to copy videos from my trail cameras to a USB stick while also copying
> and organizing them on my hard drive.  When I put in a USB stick or the
> card from the camera, I click the notification thing and tell it to open
> the USB stick or the card.  Thing is, it tries to copy the instance,
> usually the one I use to watch TV from, which has a lot of open tabs.  I
> have to close all the tabs I don't want to get things like it should be
> to begin with. 

Dolphin settings, very first page, very first setting: set it to open a 
fixed location at startup. Then it will not restore any previous internal 
state.

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