Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Questions tagged [konsole]
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How can I ring the audio bell within a bash script running under gnu screen?
In a konsole terminal window outside of screen running a bash shell with TERM set to konsole-256color if I type:
echo -n $'\a'
or
echo -n $'\eg'
or
./ringbell.sh
where contents of ringbell.sh is
#!/bin/bash
echo -n $'\eg'
echo -n $'\a'
They all…
Bob
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KDE Konsole to select text and copy to clipboard
In Ubuntu Terminal, drag and drop selection can copy the text selected into clipboard and Shift+Insert to paste. In KDE Konsole, it seems selection doesn't do copy. So either I have to use mouse middle key to copy/paste, or open context menu to…
Stan
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How do I share konsole profiles with other computers?
I work on several computers and have set them up similarly. Today I created a new Konsole profile on one computer and want to use the new profile on other computers without manually recreating the profile. (All these computers are running Fedora 24…
David Levner
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Open new konsole from script, executing command and becoming interactive on conclusion
I want to be able to get a script (ran at startup) to open up a konsole terminal.
When it opens it is to do some persistent things (like change directory and source bashrc) and run a long running program.
If the program crashes or I come in and…
Hashbrown
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VIM: How to configure Solarized colorscheme in Konsole
I am trying to configure Solarized for use in VIM in Konsole (KDE terminal). This is the result that I get:
Note that Solarized looks fine in GVIM on the same machine:
I suspect that it is Konsole's profile (colorscheme) that is the problem, but I…
dotancohen
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What triggers notifications of the form "Bell in session Shell" in KDE?
I'm running KDE on Debian Testing.
From time to time, programs running in a terminal (Konsole) trigger system notifications of the form "Bell in session Shell".
What triggers these notifications?
Note: I'm not asking how to disable them - I know…
HighCommander4
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Will any (recent) Linux terminal emulator allow me to save my session (tabs, history, etc)?
Over time, I become invested in my terminal sessions: tabs, command history, window layout and title, etc. Eventually, a reboot requires me to start all over again which wastes my time.
The two terminal emulators with which I'm familiar had at…
srking
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How can I clear the scrollback buffer in konsole from bash?
I'm a heavy bash user and konsole is my preferred environment. I know I can use the keyboard command ctrl+shift+x to clear the scrollback buffer, but there's certain points in my scripts where I would like that to occur. How can I clear konsole's…
Joshua K
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Konsole page up/down keyboard shortcut
In CentOS 4.6, Shift+PgUp browses half-page up and Shift+ mouse wheel up is one-page up. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do a one-page up? How would I set Shift+PgUp to browse one-page up?
Stan
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How to fine-tune TTF rendering in xterm?
I've been trying for the past couple of days to get xterm to display the same font that I have gotten used to in konsole for the last few years – it works for me quite well even with relatively small face size. xterm seems to render the font in a…
koniiiik
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Change terminal colors when connecting to remote server, Linux
I have a habit of changing the terminal background to another color scheme when connected to a remote server. This prevents lots of theoretical, unfortunate mishaps.
Is there a way to change the desktop background automatically, preferably to a…
Adam Matan
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Stopping ligatures in konsole
After upgrading to Fedora 29 konsole has started to use ligatures for my monowidth fonts (currently Inconsolata), which is beyond terrible for example when it decides to combine "fi". I have futzed with fontconfig tweaks like the following, to no…
Christian
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Set name of Konsole window
How can one set the name of a Konsole window in KDE? I know that we can change the names of the tabs, and the Konsole window title is preconfigured to use the name of the current tab, but this is not what I would like to do.
I have one Konsole…
dotancohen
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Vim color scheme does not work in tmux
I am using konsole-4.14.3, tmux-2.6, vim-7.4.1938 and my shell is bash. Outside tmux, my vim color scheme works properly. However, inside tmux the colors are completely different. I kind of know what the problem is, but not sure how to solve it.
The…
niko
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KDE - Open a window in the center of the screen
Is it possible to open a window in KDE using a command line (similar to the example below) in the center of the screen? If yes, is it possible set this independently of the screen size?
Example:
konsole --hide-tabbar --hide-menubar -p…
Eduardo Lúcio
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