Konsole's advanced features include simple configuration and the ability to use multiple terminal shells in a single window, making for a less cluttered desktop.
Using Konsole, a user can open:
Linux® console sessions
Shell sessions
Screen sessions
Midnight Commander file manager sessions
Root
console
sessions
Root
Midnight Commander sessions
User created sessions
These sessions can be renamed to help you keep track of all your shells, or signaled (STOP, CONT, HUP, INT, TERM, KILL).
For more control over Konsole, a user can:
hide/show the menubar and/or frame
select the size of a Konsole window, fonts, color schemes, and key mapping
change location of the scrollbar or hide the scrollbar
change location of the tabbar or hide the tabbar
All chosen settings can be made the default for forthcoming sessions by saving them.
For those with a deep interest in the taxonomy of free X terminals, there are two others of this kind: xterm, the original, written even before X itself (a month or two), and xvt, a lightweight xterm clone, on which most other currently available derivatives (notably eterm) are based.
After a decade, Konsole is the first rewrite from the ground
up. While xterm has definitely been hacked
to death (its README
begins with the words
“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”), Konsole offers
a fresh start using contemporary technologies and understanding of
X.
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