When Konsole is started from the command-line, various options can be specified to modify its behavior.
--help
List the various options.
-e
command
Execute
command
instead of the normal shell.
Any arguments after command
will be passed to
command
, not Konsole.
--keytab
file
Start Konsole using a specified .keytab file to customize key bindings.
--keytabs
List all of the available keytabs.
--ls
Start with a login shell environment.
What that does varies depending on your system, but generally it
means that files such as ~/.profile
or
~/.bash_profile
will be read. (If that doesn't mean
anything to you, don't worry about it, but keep in the back of your mind
for when you realize you need it.)
--name
name
Set the name that appears in the titlebar.
--noclose
Prevent Konsole from closing when an
exit
command is issued in the only session window.
--noframe
Start Konsole without a frame.
--nohist
Disable the saving of lines that scroll off the top of the window.
--nomenubar
Start Konsole with the menubar hidden.
--noresize
Disable the resizing of the terminal window.
--noscrollbar
Start Konsole with the scrollbar hidden.
--notabbar
Start Konsole with the tabbar hidden.
--noxft
Start Konsole without Xft antialiasing. Antialiasing of a small font may be difficult to read.
--profile
file
Start Konsole using a saved set of sessions.
--profiles
List all of the available profiles.
--schema
name
| file
Start Konsole using schema 'name' or specified in 'file' to customize appearance.
--schemata
List all of the available schemata.
--script
Enable extended DCOP Qt™ functions.
-T
title
Set the window title.
--tn
terminal
Sets the environment variable TERM to the specified
value. Read man
for more information on TERM.xterm
--type
type
Start a session of the given type rather than the default.
--types
List all of the available session types.
--vt_sz
CCxLL
Start a terminal window of CC Columns and LL lines.
--workdir
dir
Open with
dir
as the working folder.
Examples:
%
konsole
--vt_sz
90x25
--nohist
Starts a Konsole window with 90 columns and 25 rows, with no history
%
konsole
--noclose
-e
echo_args
Hello, thanks for using Konsole!
Starts a Konsole window with the text printed 'Hello, thanks for using Konsole!'
The echo_args
is a simple Bash script:
#!/bin/bash echo $*
Konsole also accepts generic Qt™ and KDE options:
--help-qt
List Qt™-specific options
The following Qt™ options have no effect on Konsole:
--fn
, --font
fontname
Defines the application font
--bg
, --background
color
Sets the default background color
--fg
, --foreground
color
Sets the default foreground color
--btn
, --button
color
Sets the default button color
--help-kde
List KDE-specific options
--help-all
List all options
--author
Show the authors' names
-v,--version
Show the version number
--license
Show license information
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