how to enable and disable double click mouse options in kde

Question

I use dolphin as my default file browser. The recent releases have moved the options to configure single/double click open of files.

Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> Navigation - Mouse

I find that I use double click to open as a single click to select allows me to manage my files a lot more easily.

How do I change these settings in the new version of dolphin?

I am using i3 windows manager on manjaro distro.

Solution 1

You can work around this problem with your keyboard using

Ctrl+left click

That will let you single click files to do file operations like move and copy etc.

Solution 2

After weeks of trying different things.

Using systemseting5

Option 1

I could not follow these instructions. As they relate to an older version of dolphin and KDE.

systemsettings from the command prompt -> Input Devices under the Hardware section -> Mouse section in the left-hand side menu > Double-click to open files and folders

Option 2

I could not follow these instructions As my systemsettings5 did not have all the options available to set

Under Workspace section > Desktop Behaviour > Workspace > Click behaviour > Single/Double Click Option

I didn't have Desktop Behaviour as an option. I fixed this by installing the missing package

sudo pacman -S plasma-meta

Then I could follow the above options.

Alternatives command line

Change the options in the kdeglobals config of my user.

vim ~/.config/kdeglobals
...
[KDE]
...
SingleClick=false
...

Restart.

Comments

[mx1up]

+1 for the config file location and field

[nelaaro]

My config is Manjaro / Arch is broken and I can't switch modes single / double click through the settings. :<.