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When I use Dolphin File Manager in Detail View mode, for some reason there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar if I adjust my columns to fill the screen. The only way to get rid of the scrollbar is to make my columns much narrower and leave a huge gap on the right edge. I have tried turning "Side Padding" on and off, but it only seems to affect padding on the left side, not on the right.

Screenshot of my pictures folder. I have just three columns (Name, Size, Modified). These all fit on screen and there's even some whitespace to the right of the Modified column, yet there is a horizontal scrollbar visible at the bottom of the window.

The undesired scrollbar is visible in the screenshot across the bottom edge of the main window panel. How can I eliminate this? I am on Dolphin 25.04.0 with KDE Plasma 6.3.5 on Arch Linux (kernel 6.14.5-arch1-1).

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I found a config option that was causing this. Dolphin's config file is located at ~/.config/dolphinrc and contains a section that should look something like this:

[DetailsMode]
ExpandableFolders=false
LeftPadding=0
PreviewSize=16
RightPadding=164

That RightPadding value is the problem. I changed it from 164 to 0 and restarted Dolphin, and the scrollbar was gone. I'm not sure how this value got set (or why the "Side Padding" setting in Dolphin doesn't seem to affect it), but that solved the problem for me.

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