The menubar is at the top of the Konsole window. The menubar can be activated and deactivated by the Alt key.
-> allows the menubar to be hidden. When the menubar is hidden, can be reached by clicking in the window or by Alt+Ctrl+M, which is the default shortcut for activating the menubar. The menubar can also be toggled by assigning it a shortcut.
Open a new session with a terminal shell. Alt+Ctrl+N can also be used, as described in more detail below.
Open a new Konsole window.
Open a new session emulating a text-only Linux® system.
See the file README.linux.console
in
the Konsole source package for detailed information on how the Linux®
console differs from a typical UNIX® console. If this doesn't mean anything
to you, you almost certainly don't need to worry about it.
Open a new session with the Midnight Commander file browser.
This menu entry will only be visible if Midnight Commander (mc) is installed on your system.
Open a new session with the Midnight
Commander file browser, as the root
user.
After being prompted for the root
password, the #
prompt appears under the browser window, indicating that the user is
working with root
privileges. Again, working as root
is frequently necessary but care
should be taken to avoid accidental damage.
This menu entry will only be visible if Midnight Commander (mc) is installed on your system.
Open a new session with a terminal shell, as the
root
user.
After being prompted for the root
password, the #
prompt appears, indicating that the user is working with root
privileges. This is frequently
necessary for installing new software and other system maintenance, but
care should be taken to avoid accidental damage.
Open a new session with the
Screen virtual terminal manager.
See man
for more information.
screen
This menu entry will only be visible if Screen (screen) is installed on your system.
Start a new terminal shell, in a folder chosen from the bookmark list.
Print the current screen.
Close the current session.
Quit Konsole, closing all sessions and any applications launched from them.
You can also open a new session with a key shortcut. By default, Alt+Ctrl+N is used. You can also define your own key shortcuts through the -> menu command.
The list of available sessions will reflect what programs are installed along with any user defined sessions. The session list will be alphabetized for quick viewing.
Finally, note that the session types can be modified, and new types created, by using the configuration dialog, reached from the -> menu entry.
Copy the selected text to the clipboard.
Paste text from the clipboard at the cursor location.
Send Signal - Send the specified signal to the shell process, or other process, that was launched when the new session was started.
Currently available signals are:
STOP | to stop process |
CONT | continue if stopped |
HUP | hangup detected on controlling terminal, or death of controlling process |
INT | interrupt from keyboard |
TERM | termination signal |
KILL | kill signal |
USR1 | user signal 1 |
USR2 | user signal 2 |
Refer to your system manual pages for further details by giving the
command man
.7
signal
Send a file via ZModem.
Clear all text from the session window.
Reset and clear the session window.
Find a word or string of text in the current history. Options allow case sensitive or backwards searches, and the use of regular expressions in searches. Press the button to use the KDE graphical editor to create a regular expression.
Move to the next instance of the text for which you are searching.
Move to the previous instance of the text for which you are searching.
Save the current history as a text file.
Clear the history for the current session.
Clear the history for all sessions.
Open the current session in a separate window. The name of the session is displayed on the titlebar of the new window.
Open a dialog box allowing you to change the name of the current session. The name is displayed on the session tab. Alt+Ctrl+S can also be used.
Flag the current session so it will show an alert if activity occurs. An icon of a lit light bulb will appear in the session's tab. Use this to alert you if something happens while you are working in another session. The time before an alert can be modified in the Konsole preferences.
Flag the current session so it will show an alert if no activity occurs for 10 seconds. An icon of a dark light bulb will appear in the session's tab. Use this to alert you if a task stops while you are working in another session. The time before an alert can be modified in the Konsole preferences.
Flag the current session so any commands entered
into it will be sent to all sessions. The session will have a small
icon in its tab to remind you to be careful of what you enter!
rm
,
for instance, is probably not a good idea.-rf *
Move the tab of the current session one tab to the left.
Move the tab of the current session one tab to the right.
Shift+Left and Shift+Right can be also be used to move between sessions.
At the bottom of the menu is a list of the available sessions. Selecting one makes that session active.
You can also use the Shift+Left/Shift+Right keys to cycle through the available sessions.
Add the current location to the bookmark list.
Edit the bookmark list.
Add a new folder to the bookmark list.
The bookmark list is displayed at the bottom of the menu. Select a bookmark to change to that location.
You can use the bookmark editor to manually add URLs like ssh://user@host or telnet://host to open remote connections.
Hide the menubar.
Control visibility/location of tabbar: , , or .
Control visibility/location of scrollbar: , , or .
Toggle window between full-screen and normal size.
Set the bell: , , , or .
Set font size: or .
Use the option to pick any combination of font, size and style.
Select character encoding.
Choose desired keymapping.
The list of these keymappings is taken from
$KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/*.keytab
. The file
$KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/README.KeyTab
describes the *.keytab
format in more detail.
Add to or modify these files to match your needs. The default keytab is taken from
$KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/README.default.Keytab
.
Set colors of text and background.
The list is taken from
$KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/*.schema
. The file
$KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/README.Schema
describes the *.schema
format in more detail.
Add to or modify these files to match your needs. You can also create custom
schemas through the preferences dialog at ->.
Set size of text area (given in columns x rows).
Open a dialog where you can configure the history. The Enable check box toggles saving of lines that have scrolled off the top of the window. You can enter the Number of lines to remember in the text field, or use the spinner buttons to increase or decrease the number in steps of 100 lines. The button will reset the history to 1000 lines. Selecting will cause all history to be saved. Press to save your changes, or to close the dialog without saving your settings.
Save the current settings as the new default.
Save the current set of sessions under a name you choose.
The profile can then be used by starting Konsole from the command-line with the
--profile
and the name of the profile.
Customize notifications for Konsole.
Customize keyboard shortcuts for Konsole commands.
Open the KDE Control Center module, allowing many additional changes to Konsole's interface and behavior, including the creation of custom schemas and modification of the available sessions.
Open the table of contents of this document.
Display a helpful tip about the use of Konsole. Check the Show on start box to display a tip each time Konsole is started.
Submit a bug report or a feature request for Konsole.
Information about Konsole's author
Information about the KDE project
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