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Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login
Hi all,
A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding pods of
Dolphins.......

I've just started up and then logged into my up to date KDE machine.
Once the machine is logged in and ready to go, I have, on the boot/login
just now, 20 instances of Dolphin running. This is straight after login,
I have done nothing to the machine after hitting "enter" when entering
my login password. This number also appears to be increasing each time
I log in.

Has anyone come across this "feature"? I use ~x86 and everything is up
to date.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated,

Andrew
Re: Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login [ In reply to ]
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding
pods of
> Dolphins.......
>
> I've just started up and then logged into my up to date KDE
machine.
> Once the machine is logged in and ready to go, I have, on the boot/login
> just now, 20 instances of Dolphin running. This is straight after login,
> I have done nothing to the machine after hitting "enter" when entering
> my login password. This number also appears to be increasing each time
> I log in.
>
> Has anyone come across this "feature"? I use ~x86 and everything
is up
> to date.
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> Andrew

To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file.

What does your .config/dolphinrc file look like?

At the level of KDE in general I have no idea what config file/files it
looks at when configuring the complete desktop environment but that would
be the next thing I'd go looking for.

I'm assuming (bad idea) that you've done a very simple experiment like
closing all the dolphin windows and immediately logging out of KDE?

- Mark