Questions tagged [konsole]
Konsole is a terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
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Dolphin service menu to run konsole command with copied data in working directory
I would like to combine these two elements that I already use:
Konsole terminal running a yt-dlp command in order to download from a copied link (like konsole -e yt-dlp 8 %u)
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Weird spaces left on KDE terminals
In the picture you can see the problem (the app on the right).
So I recently installed manjaro i3wm, but I love KDE apps, so I installed konsole, kate and dolphin (which all of them have terminal ...
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How to apply same settings for Yakuake and Konsole flatpak?
I attempted to install Yakuake and Konsole using Flatpak due to issues with the default installation, which produced garbled output and occasional blank lines, resulting in inconsistency. After ...
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What is the unit of window size in Konsole?
When one opens a Konsole window or resizes it, window sizes appear at the centre. For example, if one opens Konsole it says 110×28. What is the unit of window size?
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KDE Konsole incorrect reboot behaviour
I'm running KDE Plasma on Arch Linux. Upon rebooting my PC, Plasma re-opens the applications that were open prior to reboot. This is desirable behaviour and functions as expected for all applications ...
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How to yank text from the kill-ing and instert it at the cursor location in another terminal window? [closed]
Is it possible to copy a text from one terminal and input it into another without selecting it?
More precisely, within the same terminal window, I can kill the text line by CTRL-U and then yank the ...
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Open Konsole terminal always in split view
I am using Konsole (the default terminal) in Kubuntu.
I am aware that I can split Konsole using SHIFT + CTRL + 0.
I would like Konsole to automatically split by default every time I launch it.
I have ...
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Kubuntu 22.10 Konsole shortcut CTRL+INS not working, get "5~"
I'm using Kubuntu 22.10, and when using Konsole, if I use the Ctrl+Ins shortcut, the selected text isn't copied, I get a 5~. Shift+Ins is working (i.e. pasting works). I've already checked:
KDE ...
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Terminal history up/down broken if last command output does not end in newline (KDE Konsole)
There is a strange behavior in all or most Linux terminal, which has bugged me for a long time. I am not sure if it is a bug or intended, or a configuration issue. So I ask here first.
Steps to ...
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have clear screen clear konsole ram
how do I set it so clear command clears the output that was stored in ram
from my understanding, konsole keeps screen output in ram.
I want to clear that when I clear the visible part of the screen ...
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Mapping colors in KDE Konsole to elements of Vim formatting
I seem to be struggling with this for quite a while, and always it is trial and error.
I need to know the mapping between different elements of formatting in Vim (for instance, the font color of the ...
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How do I get mouse click to position cursor to work in konsole with bash?
I would like to be able to click the mouse button in konsole to position the cursor in bash. How do I do it?
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What exactly is the output in my terminal when I try to use Alt+Delete to remove text?
Alt+Backspace works in terminals which often leads to me mistakenly trying Alt+Delete which then adds a ~. What exactly is happening there?
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How do I get the user@os to show up in front of commands in the shell
Currently my shell shows this:
It used to show up like user@distro ~$. How do I get that user@distro to show up in the terminal? I'm using Konsole as my terminal.
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^[[3~ try again error in kde konsole
I am trying to enter in admin by sudo su. But after entering sudo password and pressing enter terminal automatically printing some character and showing try again.
^[[3~floki@aspire:~$ sudo su
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Why do I see a black-and-white emoji in console with Noto Color Emoji font installed?
I have installed Noto Color Emoji font on my system (e.g. Arch: noto-fonts-emoji), but I still see this black-and-white version in the terminal (Konsole):
However, I expected the color one as ...
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Change color of title bar in Konsole terminal emulator
I'm using Konsole terminal emulator in Debian bullseye.
And with the default color setting, I think the active tab is not distinguishable, so, I want to change the color of active tab to other color ...
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How can the terminal emulator tell whether it's safe to close the window or it requires some confirmation?
While using Konsole as my terminal emulator, I realized that in addition to typing exit or hitting Ctrld, I can also click "close tab" and it closes it. What's interesting though is that ...
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How to blacklist KDE terminal in guake?
I am running guake on Debian testing -
$guake --version
Guake Terminal: 3.8.1
VTE: 0.66.2
VTE runtime: 0.66.2
Gtk: 3.24.30
Fortunately or unfortunately KDE terminal seems to come in my guake ...
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Konsole colors not displaying right
I run Konsole with zsh on KDE on Arch as my main terminal interface. I have a custom color sheme. But, something happened, and the colors stopped displaying right.
How it works on my machine:
When I ...
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How do I ensure same colorscheme across VIM on KDE installations?
Every time I upgrade to a new version of Debian (or any other Linux distro), I end up tweaking the blue color in Konsole, which by default is too dark. Here is the screenshot of a portion of a Bash ...
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The profile session of kde konsole dosn't accept edit
I am using linux arch. I installed the KDE konsole as usual, but when I save the console settings it does not save.
I changed the default session to another session, but when you open the konsole, I ...
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img2pdf: get pages in good order
img2pdf works very quickly with hundreds of images and creates a pdf out of them with a command like
img2pdf *.tif -o out.pdf
but the page order is wrong in my case. I ran the command in konsole ...
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How to get rid of Konsole toolbar
It happened to me after an update to Konsole.
How can I remove the icons in the red box below?
There is a Show Menubar checkbox on context menu, I'm wondering why lack of Show toolbox checkbox made ...
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Can't write tildes on konsole and certain console emulators
So im completely bewildered on this problem, initially two years ago i remember being able to use tildes(~) easily on terminal emulators, but for some reason it suddenly stopped working for this and ...
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Konsole: Remote tab title show current directory?
Is there a way I can configure the remote tab title of a Konsole window to show the current directory as my tab title? Is there a way I can use the %w option to configure it as such?
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why is shell (new terminal, new tmux panes/windows) slow to load?
When I open a new terminal it takes a couple seconds for the shell to load, when I open a new pane or window in tmux it might even take a second longer. The delay is about 3 seconds.
I'm using zsh ...
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Replace gnome-terminal with konsole in Linux Mint
I installed konsole and uninstalled gnome-terminal by doing:
sudo apt install -y konsole
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove gnome-terminal
And then tried:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-...
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Is there a way to turn off highlighting of pasted text in Konsole on Plasma 5.21?
Upon upgrading to the new Plasma 5.21, one of the things I noticed is that whenever I copy and paste something into the Konsole it gets highlighted automatically. I'm curious if there's a way to turn ...
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Disable Alt+C shortcut in KDE Konsole
In KDE's Konsole, in a split view, Alt+C closes the last opened pane (view) for me. Unfortunately, this conflicts with my use of Alt+C to capitalise a word in Emacs. How do I turn off Konsole's ...
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My Manjaro KDE Display Manager failed to start
When I boot into my Manjaro KDE, it says that the Display Manager failed to start. I then login from console and try startx. But it seems like something were missing. I can't even download it since I ...
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Dolphin starts with wrong shell when restored from last session
Dolphin has it's own embedded terminal (which is a KDE Konsole). My default shell is zsh. When Dolphin is restored from the last session (via KDE Plasma session management), it starts with bash ...
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Avoiding similar commands in Konsole when scrolling through recent commands in Manjaro KDE
Imagine that I enter these commands in Konsole (Manjaro KDE terminal):
python3 script.py
clear
clear
Normally when I hit arrow UP key, I am able to scroll through recent commands: If I hit arrow UP ...
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Is there a terminal emulator which can notify when there is an output with certain pattern?
Konsole, for example, only provides option to notify when there is activity or silence.
My particular case: I run a long-running program which turns out to occasionally prompt for user/password. It ...
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Running GUI application as root user
When I try to open a GUI application lets say KWrite in Debian KDE via terminal as root user I get this error:
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Could not connect to any X ...
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Execute a command in a separate konsole then let users type commands
I am working on software at a large corporation where I have little control over the overall technologies used, and as a result need to find solutions that will work within the constraints I have.
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The screen and tmux programs have suddenly stopped mouse scrolling in KDE Konsole
Some new behaviour in Konsole has prevented both screen and tmux from scrolling the window. I mostly use screen and when using the mouse wheel to scroll it would spin through the command line history. ...
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possible to join/attach Konsole windows?
In KDE's Konsole, if I have a Konsole window open with multiple tabs and accidentally click and drag a tab off into its own window, is there any way to re-attach it to the tabs of the original Konsole ...
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Key sequence ambiguous in Konsole
My Arch Linux machine has KDE Plasma desktop installed and I'm using Konsole as a terminal. In Konsole, when I highlight text and press Ctrl+Shift+C on my keyboard to copy it, I get this popup message....
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How to change behavior of CTRL+L in my terminal?
My current system:
OS: Manjaro 20.0.3 Lysia
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.4.52-1-MANJARO
Shell: bash 5.0.18
DE: KDE 5.72.0 / Plasma 5.19.3
Every time I press CTRL+L on my terminal (Konsole), the visible ...
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How do you use the keyboard to highlight the text you want to copy in konsole?
When I want to copy and paste text from the konsole screen I have to use the mouse but I find that rather awkward.
Is there a way to enter a mode where you can use the keys to highlight the text you ...
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Why does urxvt display this box drawing glyph differently?
I'm switching to urxvt and noticed something on the way. I use zsh and powerlevel10k with it. The powerline, if that's what it's called, is being differently on urxvt, even though both konsole and ...
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KDE Konsole: how to save and restore current session?
KDE Konsole does not have a feature to save the current session (opened tabs, current directory etc.)
How can we save/restore the current session?
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How to shift previous output upwards on Konsole
On gnome-terminal I'm used to type clear or ctrl+L to clear the terminal and I can still scroll back to view all previous outputs. On konsole - KDE, running the clear command removes the outputs on ...
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mathematica in Konsole can't access last input with keyboard
Here is my configuration
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:-----------/shhOHbmp---:\ OS: Fedora 32 (Thirty Two) x86_64
/-----------omMMMNNNMMD ---: ...
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Open file with vi in konsole by default
I am running Fedora 32 with KDE env.
In dolphin, I would like to open '.m' files using vi in konsole by simply clicking on this file.
In short, if my file is "toto.m", I want the command "konsole -e ...
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How to clear the bash history when i close the terminal? [duplicate]
Using KDE Konsole as a bash terminal I would like to clear the history when I close the terminal (tab/application), note that I do need the bash history when Konsole is still open (to search it); I ...
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How to prevent "Clear scrollback & reset" from breaking ZSH history in Konsole?
When I do the "Clear scrollback & reset" command in Konsole, while using ZSH (with Oh-My-Zsh), the latter loses ability to search backward in history using up arrow key.
I.e. when I print a ...
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How to make "Focus follow mouse" for Dolphin File Explorer?
I use Dolphin file explorer, within which I frequently switch back and forth to the terminal panel. So I was wondering how to make "Focus follow mouse" within Dolphin, so that I don't need to click ...
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How Do I Run Multiple Interactive Shells From One Script?
After building my code I have to run 3 java processes from different directories.
Each of these has processes has an interactive console so I need to open them in new windows or new tabs in konsole.
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