I know how to start a Konsole with one executable running in it, and leave the Konsole open after the program ends. I can do this using a .desktop file and change some options in it. But I would l...

How can I change the konsole tab title? By default, it's set to %u : %n, so it always changes automatically. I can set it with: qdbus org.kde.konsole $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION setTitle 1 "My Title" ...

I am in the middle of customizing my ZSH prompt but am seemingly unable to use escape sequences to tell Konsole to use bold text or a specific RGB color. I know about the built in formatting option...

The KDE 5 terminal emulator Konsole has a great feature Split View that allows me to make full use of my big monitor. However, I cannot find a way to use keyboard shortcuts, rather than clicking mo...

I discovered tmux possibility recently and I'm using it inside yakuake/konsole (quake-like terminal). However, I have to launch tmux manually every time I start my laptop or restart yakuake. How t...

Using the clear command on the terminal only fools the user into thinking the screen has been cleared...you can still see output from the previous commands when you scroll using the mouse. Th...

I am looking for a good way to have 24 bit color in emacs when using a graphical terminal emulator. Konsole, for example, does support escape codes for true color, as documented here: https://gith...

Whenever I use printf in the shell whether it is within awk, a standalone application, or in C/C++ it prints a "%" after everything. For instance, when I type printf "hi" I get this as an output hi...

When you use git it seems to magically know whether standard out is going through a pipe or into a file vs when it is being displayed to the console. For example, if you have colors enabled and you...

How can I change the Konsole title in Python? I found this code: >>> import sys >>> sys.stdout.write("\x1b]2;test\x07") But it only works with Gnome terminal, not Konsole (on K...

I'm trying to, from a command line, open an instance of konsole and run a python script. I'm trying: konsole -hold -e 'python -i hello.py' The behaviour I'm getting is that a persistent konsole ...

I use dcop to rename a Konsole session, such as dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession "whatever" However, when I ssh to a server and from there, I issue this command, it does not work and gi...

I'm running emacs-nox 23.3 in Konsole (from kde) emulator, the most color themes have strange colors. For example, i like the Solarized Theme. I expect the theme should look like this: (source: et...

Using emacs -nw file1 file2 I can open multiple files at once. However, emacs will open them in horizontal splits. Is there a way to set default split behavior to vertical? I have looked at: Toggl...

Through the clever use of some escape characters, I used to put the output of arbitrary commands (e.g. "dirs") into my xterm title bar. Can I do the same thing in konsole? If so, how?