How do I open Dolphin in a certain folder from the terminal?
Try this in the terminal: dolphin /usr/home/
(choose your own path). For more information, read the man page (also available online: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/dolphin.1.html).
Help pages
The KDE applications have the help - with the Dolphin:
:~$ dolphin --help
Usage: dolphin [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] [Url]
File Manager
Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options
Options:
--select The files and directories passed as arguments will be selected.
--split Dolphin will get started with a split view.
Arguments:
Url Document to open
Launch with the default application
The KDE has the "Default Appications" in the KDE system settings.
The kfmclient is:
:~$ kfmclient --help
Usage: kfmclient [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [KDE-tempfile-options] [options] command [URL(s)]
KDE tool for opening URLs from the command line
Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-kde-tempfile Show KDE-tempfile specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options
Options:
--noninteractive Non interactive use: no message boxes
--commands Show available commands
Arguments:
command Command (see --commands)
URL(s) Arguments for command
Opening the directory with the default file manager:
kfmclient exec /path/to/the/directory/
If you would like to open dolphin from your current path in your terminal just use,
dolphin . &