Make Konqueror use your default view mode in new tabs

There seems to be a bug in konqueror where it uses the icon view mode in new tabs even if you have detailed list (or any other mode) selected as the default view mode in the File Management view profile. I found a workaround today on the konqueror bug page.

It’s actually pretty simple and involves no terminal commands. In konqueror, go to Settings, Configure Konqueror. Scroll down and click on “File Associations.” In this section expand “inode” and then click on “directory.” Now, go to the “Embedding” tab. Under “Services Preference Order,” move “Detailed List View” to the top.

Now when you open a new tab in konquerer it will use the detailed list view mode.

EDIT: PCLinuxOS users read here. To set detailed list view as default in PCLinuxOS: Open Konqueror (via System Menu->Home Folder), set view mode to “Detailed List View” and save this setting to the save view profile “File Management”. (Thanks to Dexamillion for this – see his comment below)

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29 Responses to “Make Konqueror use your default view mode in new tabs”

  1. Val Says:
    April 28, 2007 at 9:40 am

    Hey – thanks a bunch! This works.

  2. Themis Says:
    May 6, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    I was trying to fix this by tweaking the code, and it was in the settings.

    Thank you!

  3. Jose Says:
    May 15, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Yesss! One little bugger less on my new Ubuntu personalization…

    Thanks, man

  4. Janne Says:
    June 14, 2007 at 6:32 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

    Who want icons any way?

  5. atom Says:
    June 16, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    thank god, still can’t believe this wasn’t easy to set =P

  6. boudewijn Says:
    June 17, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    it works! :-) . I’ve been looking for a solution for this problem for a while. thank you!

  7. Collieman Says:
    July 11, 2007 at 9:52 am

    I did exactly as instructed but it doesn’t work. Now when I click on “view” detailed list view is now at the top but after closing Konqueror then reopening it’s back to icon view mode. I’m using PCLinuxOS. I’ll have to keep on searching.

  8. Joao Says:
    September 8, 2007 at 9:45 am

    U da man!

  9. victim Says:
    October 26, 2007 at 5:42 am

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

    Why is this hidden. I have tried Dolphin and Nautilus but came back Konquerer, but the annoying ‘bug’ of openning new tabs in icon mode was very, very annoying.

    If I hadn’t found out about this fix, I was very tempted to go back to Windows and Directory Opus.

    Maybe KDE4 will have a much more obvious way of changing the default view mode.

  10. Dietmar Says:
    October 27, 2007 at 6:47 am

    Thanks a lot, I was searching a long time to fix this behaviour… Now Konqueror is nearly perfect :-)

  11. Don Says:
    November 6, 2007 at 2:10 am

    Thanks so much for posting this, i was really getting annoyed with this in Kubuntu.

    Now if only i can work out how to get back the two buttons for icon view and detailed list. Why do the kubuntu people change so many things for the worse?

  12. Ben Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Thank you!!!

    Is there any way to set a profile as the default that Konqueror will automatically use upon startup?

  13. strabes Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 8:07 am

    Ben:
    I don’t use KDE anymore but you have to run konqueror with some sort
    of flag. If I remember correctly it should be like this:

    konqueror –filemanager

    If that doesn’t work, run

    konqueror –help

    to find out. You can just edit the menu / launcher command and add the
    correct flag in once you find it.

    Hope this helps,
    Alex

  14. Dexamillion Says:
    February 21, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    To set detailed list view as default in PCLinuxOS: Open Konqueror (via System Menu->Home Folder), set view mode to “Detailed List View” and save this setting to the save view profile “File Management”.

  15. Patrick C. Says:
    March 27, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Just found this solution Googling when I was frustrated by Kubuntu, which continually opened the new view in icon view. Thanks for writing simply about a stupidly obfuscated setting.

  16. Rob Enderle Says:
    April 30, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Thanks a million!

    Im a recent Windows convert to full time Linux and I love the KDE versatility but ‘you really have to know’ is the right expression here.
    I think the secret to desktop acceptance isnt the bells and whistles but the ability to find things like this throgh a search menu.
    Yes, desktop acceptance will succeed through better documentation. Not sexy but true.

    Most of the problems Ive had were solved through my best friends like ’startx’ which I found through Google and forums but this should be done through KDE.

    Then again, with over a dozen years on Windows machines, there are tons of those tricks that I picked up and passed on. I will definitely pass this on as well.

    Thanks a million. I just tried it with the PCLinuxOS way and it worked like a charm.
    I’m going to try the first way on my wife’s laptop which runs kUbuntu.

  17. Dirk J. Says:
    July 7, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Thanks a lot!!

    The technical advances of a powerful, multifunctional software will be destroyed by confusing settings. The configuration of konqueror remindes me of the configuration
    of emacs.

  18. Who knows? Says:
    August 10, 2008 at 10:31 am

    What website?

  19. Who knows? Says:
    August 10, 2008 at 10:33 am

    I mean how do you make your tab go smaller? Because my one looks like a fat chip because of my nis playing around with my computer >:(

  20. strabes Says:
    August 10, 2008 at 11:00 am

    @Who knows?

    Please be a little more specific; I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Maybe include a screenshot?

  21. stanza Says:
    October 27, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Yes!. You’ve stopped me pulling my hair out over stupid icon view mode- now I can return to losing it the old fashioned way.

    Cheers!

  22. giovanni Says:
    November 15, 2008 at 3:14 am

    Thanks you very much!! I was looking for a file manager
    keeping the view mode. Now I can use konqueror!

    Regards

  23. C. Bess Says:
    November 20, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Thanks with a capital “T”!

  24. cwxwwwxwwxwx Says:
    December 23, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)

  25. AndyG Says:
    December 26, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks a bunch!

    Me too, I’ve been pretty annoyed with myself for not being able to find this. Now I know it was a case of Linux being made BY techies AGAINST techies. I think non-techies might not be so annoyed by this lack of GUI design. I wish I was good enough to do something about it…

  26. gawron Says:
    July 14, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Thanks a million! I almost gave up on this and just had those stupid large childish icons instead of a decently detailed list view. Using Sabayon 4.0 with KDE (Gentoo), I had to use Dexamillion tip about the <> (under the Settings menu).

    Obfuscated setting indeed! Gee(k)s!

  27. From_China Says:
    September 15, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    Thanks so much

    A stupid design from konqueror. It is really really damn annoying.
    Thanks for your fix.

  28. Settor28 Says:
    October 22, 2009 at 4:10 am

    How else would we meet friends? ,

  29. Miss10 Says:
    October 23, 2009 at 3:41 am

    They are free to believe whatever they like. ,

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