Fixing the empty “open with” in Dolphin in Hyprland

I have already blogged about KDE applications in Hyprland.

However, with the latest updates, things broke a bit especially with Dolphin, which does not recognize file associations anymore: double-clicking on a file always shows this empty menu, as if it could not find any associations for any file:

On the Arch forum that has already been reported and claimed as solved: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2167442. However, the reported solution only temporarily solves the problem, at least in Hyprland.

The steps to solve the problem and make it permanent are the following:

Install this package:

Check that it works by running:

Now, if you run Dolphin you should be able to open the files again.

However, as soon as you install/update KDE packages, the problem shows up again. To solve this permanently, add this line in the file “~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf”:

Exit Hyprland and get back in.

Now the problem should be solved for good! 🙂

8 thoughts on “Fixing the empty “open with” in Dolphin in Hyprland

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  2. Marco

    Hi Lorenzo!

    I added the env to my hyprland.conf but after restarting it keeps forgetting the associations.
    It works after executing kbuildsycoca6. Maybe is it necessary to exec-once = kbuildsycoca6?

    Thanks for these posts on Hyprland meets KDE. Super useful!

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    1. Lorenzo Bettini Post author

      Ciao Marco

      I haven’t been using Hyprland for a few days and maybe something has been updated in KDE that requires at least another kbuildsycoca6.
      Have you added the execution to hyprland.conf or have you tried whether running at least kbuildsycoca6 it works after restart?

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  3. Richee

    I found a problem with this fix. It appeared to work after a reboot, but then it would stop working after subsequent reboots.

    I found that making a simple bash script containing…

    #!/bin/bash
    XDG_MENU_PREFIX=arch- kbuildsycoca6

    …and then including the line “exec-once = ~/path/to/script.sh” in my ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf fixed it.

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