STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open Dolphin 2. make sure 'Show on startup: Folders, tabs, add window state from last time' option is selected in 'Startup' section of Dolphin settings 3. open some tabs 4. close Dolphin 5. take a screenshot with Spectacle and save it - a notification appears 6. click on the hamburger button of the notification and choose 'Open containing folder' OBSERVED RESULT Dolphin opens without the tabs open in the step 3 EXPECTED RESULT Dolphin opens with the tabs open in the step 3 SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Graphics Platform: Wayland
Created attachment 157907 [details] Video recording of the issue Same for me. Attached a recording of the issue. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: Fedora 36 KDE Plasma: 5.27.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have removed any other file managers I had in case it interfered.
*** Bug 468966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is also happening to me. My observations: I have "Show on startup: Folders, tabs, add window state from last time" selected. After closing Dolphin: * Opening it again from a pinned entry in the Icons-Only Task Manager does not remember the last tabs. * Restoring it after login from a saved session does not remember the last tabs. * Opening it again using the Meta+E shortcut DOES remember the last tabs. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.3.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
you are facing bug 469656
fixes and improvements since this was reported, and this issue may have been fixed. Can you please re-test on your system with Dolphin 25.04.3 or later and let us know if you can still reproduce the problem? If you can, please set this report back to REPORTED. Thanks!
Can reproduce with provided steps. Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Graphics Platform: Wayland
For me, dolphin doesn't remember additional tabs when launched by an external QT program then closed. If I open a folder in qbittorrent, close dolphin, then launch dolphin independently, the qBittorrent tab is forgotten. With GTK apps such as Firefox, using the "Show In Folder" from the Downloads menu launches Dolphin with a singular tab of that folder without the previously saved tabs. If I close dolphin then reopen the previous tabs are restored and the Firefox tab is forgotten. KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Graphics Platform: Wayland dolphin 25.04.3
(In reply to Real Name Here from comment #7) > With GTK apps such as Firefox, using the "Show In Folder" from the Downloads > menu launches Dolphin with a singular tab of that folder without the > previously saved tabs. If I close dolphin then reopen the previous tabs are > restored and the Firefox tab is forgotten. I can reproduce this on git-master.
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #8) > (In reply to Real Name Here from comment #7) > > With GTK apps such as Firefox, using the "Show In Folder" from the Downloads > > menu launches Dolphin with a singular tab of that folder without the > > previously saved tabs. If I close dolphin then reopen the previous tabs are > > restored and the Firefox tab is forgotten. > > I can reproduce this on git-master. Another QT app example, Kate: 1. Launch Dolphin with a few tabs. 2. Close Dolphin 3. Launch Kate > File> Open File > Right Click Folder > Open Folder With Dolphin 4. Close Dolphin 5. Open Dolphin and the Kate tab is forgotten, but tabs from step 1 are remembered. Thank you for tracking and working on resolving this bug!
Same behavior with Gwenview, also.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/1257
Git commit 173794ce15620aa0c673464f532cfd67f55ab278 by Méven Car, on behalf of Sergey Katunin. Committed on 04/05/2026 at 08:42. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. Restore session if this is the first instance 1. Restore session if this is the first instance even with "new-window" option. Otherwise, if Dolphin has not been opened before, and a program (such as browsers or Kate) that launch Dolphin with "new-window" option will start Dolphin, it opens only with one tab and closes the user's previous session. With this patch, the behavior is similar to how the first instance of browsers opens with setting for tab recovery enabled. Also restore sessions if this is restoring multiple instances with session restoration after reboot enabled. 2. Dolphin should not restore all tabs for additional instances. This is especially noticeable if the "Keep a single Dolphin window, opening new folders in tabs" checkbox is turned off, and when the Dolphin window is already open (with several tabs), folders from the desktop (plasmashell) are opened by double-clicking. Desktop opens a new Dolphin window with the tabs restored and an open folder at the end. Related: bug 448707, bug 469271 M +6 -4 src/main.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/173794ce15620aa0c673464f532cfd67f55ab278