Questions tagged [konsole]
Konsole is the terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
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Get up-arrow command history in Konsole on Ubuntu
The up-arrow doesn't seem to work for command history in Konsole which I have installed in Ubuntu 19.04. Is this a KDE thing or should I change a setting somewhere?
Here are the general settings of ...
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Konsole starts in SU mode and asks for password in every window and tab
I am a bit of a newby and I have stumbled upon an annoying thing. Everytime I open a konsole, it is in su and asks for my password. I have searched around and tried all the things recommended on this ...
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The language of many buttons for kde applications (e.g. Konsole, kate, gimp) appear to be in Arabic
I have recently moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. When I use KDE as my desktop environment many of the buttons for applications appear to be in Arabic (I think - but could be another language I am ...
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Konsole -- 'Unable to locate package power' -- Power Manager unable to initialize
My power manager was working, but now it's not. It won't start up, I cant purge it in Konsole or install it again, because Konsole won't find it.
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Konsole split screen replicates the same terminal
I've just installed Kubuntu 18.04 and when I press Ctrl-Shift-) in konsole, the screen is split in two, but they are the same terminal: what I type in one of them gets typed in the other.
I don't ...
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sometimes I get locked out of 'konsole'. Why could this be?
I have been using KDE's konsole as a terminal emulator.
However, sometimes the konsole window is selected (the window bar is showing that) but my input is not being read to bash. The cursor is not ...
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konsole loses its ability to copy
I'm running on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS. My window manager is Cinammon 3.6.7.
I run konsole (version 15.12.3) as my terminal, because I like its features. As far as I know, I don't have any KDE installed ...
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How do I control when bash auto-completion shows a paged list of completions?
In my previous linux installations the bash auto-completion has always worked without problems. If I wanted to do anything to files, giving a prefix of the filename and pressing tabulator listed all ...
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Shortcut to open kde konsole at current location
How can I create a shortcut to open kde konsole at current location? For example, if I am in Download directory, I want the konsole to start from that location. Is it possible using a shortcut? I am ...
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Konsole terminal showing tearing when running commands
I'm getting this weird "screen tearing" kind of effect when running commands on my terminal The tearing actually shows what's behind the terminal, in this case I had youtube on Firefox behind the ...
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Adjustment of konsole (and other CLI app) vertical line spacing, is it possible?
Is it possible to reduce the vertical line spacing in konsole?
Under Settings/Advanced, there is a Line Spacing option but it only goes down to 0 and even at 0 there is considerable space in between ...
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How to run openconnect with username and password in a line in the terminal?
I use openconnect in Ubuntu 16.04 terminally, when I want to run it, I need to enter three phases:
"yes/no"
"username"
"password"
How can I bypass above phases using openconnect in a line (e.g. ...
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Trying to delete clamav folders in Trash, but gettting error
I've looked through other methods for deleting files from Trash, but these clamav folders are being stubborn. Every time I try to delete in Trash folder or Konsole I get this error message:
Could not ...
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Konsole does not open in current directory (pwd)
Some file managers, such as pcmanfm or pcmanfm-qt, open terminals in the current directory by setting $PWD before opening the terminal. Most terminals behave as expected. This includes xterm, gnome-...
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Kubuntu: Konsole wrap on resize option?
Is there any option to enable word wrap in Konsole when the user is resizing the window?
If I'm typing commands on my own the word warp applies but only on the commands part.
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kdeinit5 starts background konsoles with high CPU usage
I am using KDE Neon LTS 5.12, sometimes, for some unknown reason, I can see a high CPU usage that comes from started konsoles by kdeinit5.
Every konsole has no window and uses up to 17% CPU ...
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Error Modifying Intel Powerclamp Ratio?
Following the Intel Powerclamp instructions (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt), I tried setting the ratio using their recommended Konsole entry: sudo sh -c "echo ...
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Transparent Terminal sometimes not working
I normally have my konsole configured to have a transparent background color, but it's sometimes just not working ("This color scheme uses a transparent background which does not appear to be ...
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Konsole closes after few 10 minutes
After kernel update to 4.4.0-92-generic #115-Ubuntu SMP (16.04.3 LTS), I noticed that konsole app terminates (without notification) after 10 mins when there is no activity on konsole(like typing etc). ...
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How to set a gif/video as a terminal background?
As stated in the title, I want to have a moving terminal background. I'm currently using Konsole which does accept gif files as a background, however only the first frame is displayed. Can any of you ...
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konsole bash: file/dir not found or no permission
I inadvertedly opended a konsole and was confused by login (user ID, connect), entered wrong details and shut down the computer rather than exiting as required.
/proc/bus/input/devices Response: ...
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How can i start additional konsole and run some commands in it?
The following doesn't work for me:
#!/bin/bash
commands () {
cd ~/Yola
pwd
}
export -f commands
konsole --noclose -e "bash -c 'commands'"
New konsole opens, but commands are not executed....
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konsole -e does not work anymore
I just upgraded to kubuntu 17.04 and the konsole -e does not work anymore.
Using it in a script to simply execute commands in a new window (sort of a user menu)
All was fine on kubuntu 16.04
Any ...
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Characters not displayed correctly on Konsole from the SSH banner
I have configured a ssh banner on my remote server:
███████╗ █████╗ ███╗ ██╗ █████╗ ██████╗ ██╗ ██╗ █████╗ ███╗ ██╗██████╗
╚══███╔╝██╔══██╗████╗ ██║██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██║ ██╔╝██╔══██╗████╗ ██║██╔...
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Konsole - silence in session 'Default'
Why is my Konsole generating notifications every 10 seconds after a keypress in statusbar "Konsole -- silence in session 'Default'".
In "Configure Notifications -- Plasma" I can deselect ...
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How to install a new theme of konsole in Kubuntu?
I have tried the method mentioned on GitHub, but I don't know what would be the format of the colorscheme file.
Also, can anyone give some recommendations about nice theme of konsole?
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Konsole in Kubuntu 16.04 does not restore tabs
Konsole in previous versions of Kubuntu used to restore all tabs and their CWDs. Apparently it does not any more and I can't seem to find an option to tell it to do so. Konsole version 15.12.3
Any ...
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Xubuntu Thunar "Open Terminal Here" opens konsole in homefolder
When I try to open console/terminal in any folder by drop-down menu in the Thunar, the konsole is opened in /home/user folder.
How to configure "Open Terminal Here" shortcut to open new terminal ...
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How to set Konsole key bindings in 16.10?
I updated to Kubuntu 16.10 and realized that it's no longer possible to use Konsole. It has completely different key bindings and it's not easy to change those bindings at all.
For example TAB is not ...
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How to run a set of commands on Konsole [closed]
How do i create a file/program that automatically opens my Konsole on startup and runs a set of commands all by itself? The OS i am using is Plasma Linux.
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Start a new usable konsole terminal with a command
I'm trying to set a shortcut that starts a Konsole terminal, run the alsi command, and then return itself to being usable. I'm aware of the konsole -e command, but that doesn't make the terminal ...
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unable to comiple Qt app on Lubuntu [closed]
I wrote some Qt application that makes use of Konsole and for that to work, I need to #include <KParts/Part> but the problem is, I keep getting /home/ron/src/kterminal/terminal.h:25:23: fatal ...
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Exit bash script after all applications finish
I have the following bash script that runs few instances of my program simultaneously:
#!/bin/bash
./my_scrape &
./my_scrape &
./my_scrape &
exit 0
After some time I see that all ...
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Pasting multiple lines into the terminal aborts after certain commands
As an example, I paste the following into my terminal (with the newline at the end):
pwd
adb doesnotexist
ls
All three run. The second exits with a failure. On the other hand, pasting this:
pwd
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Konsole always stays in foreground and retains focus
I recently realized strange behaviors of Konsole. It always stays in foreground and remains the focus.
Examples:
I start Konsole. Then, I start Dolphin (or any other application). Dolphin will ...
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background image sideshow for Konsole/terminal
Hey I am wondering if there is a way to point Konsole to a folder of images and make them a sideshow that switches every moment or so.
New to this so thanks for the help ^.^!!!
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Kubuntu 16.04.1: Konsole: Cannot see underscore in the last line
The underscore character (_) is shown as space when in the last line of the Konsole. Is there a way to get rid of this?
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Steam isn't displaying after running [Kubuntu] [duplicate]
Steam won't run properly, it just shows up at the bottom panel for a few seconds then disappears and there's not even an icon next to the tab. No window comes up.
I have WINE & winetricks ...
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Renaming applications name in KDE taskbar
I grouped my applications according to their name in my KDE taskbar. I d now like to be able to rename some of those and to keep them grouped together.
To be precise, I often switch from ...
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Konsole hide tab bar
Is it possible to hide konsole tab bar? If so how. I've looked through the settings in the options panel for the profile, but nothing jumps out at me. Does a command line setting exist, or ...
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line-height problem when using ž character
If I write a line containgin ž in konsole or kwrite, the line height gets messed up. Is the default font broken, or is it the apps? Didn't know where to report the bug, so "ask ubuntu" sounded as a ...
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Enable 256 colors in Konsole (Kubuntu)
I would like to enable 256 colors in Konsole but I didn't get it working the right way. I have set in my enviroment:
TERM=xterm-256color
$ tput colors
256
But the colortest of base16 always prints ...
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shortcut for konsole
I am running Kubuntu 14.04 and cannot get Konsole to open with the usual shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T and have looked on various forums and configured "shortcuts and gestures" to add another entry to open ...
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Konsole crashes right after start
I have a problem with the application "Konsole" in Kubuntu 15.04. A few weeks ago everything worked fine, but then this problem occurred:
When I start Konsole it looks like this:
The app hangs ...
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Run konsole script opening php script from python
I've written a python script, which runs, and upon closure I want it to open a shell script, that opens a php script.
Python script directory: /home/user/test/a named: python1.py
Shell script ...
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Terminal does not show in Kate
I installed Kate in Ubuntu. But it is not showing Terminal in the application.
I read that I should install Konsole, as Kate is a KDE based application. I installed Konsole and ran Kate again but I ...
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How can I change to one of the many system installed fonts in KDE5 konsole?
I have KDE 5 installed and would like to install a patched font for powerline. I already ran the script to install the fonts into ~/.fonts but when editing the konsole profile, I see a very limited ...
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Blocking Start of Terminal
If you type this simple test command:
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "ls;sleep 3"
You will find that it returns immediately (the newly created terminal, of course, lingers for three seconds). This is in ...
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Combining keys (e.g., " + e = ë) not working in KDE applications (dead keys)
I have been using 'combining keys' such as + e = ë, ~ + a = ã, ^ + <space> = ^ for the longest time in my Kubuntu setup. I do not remember if the system came like that out of the box or if I ...
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Terminal error output RE: editing .conf file in Xbuntu [owned by uid 1000 istead of 0]
Was curious as to the terminal error output from running sudo Kate. I read in a forum that directed me to open my notepad using gksudo. Realizing that this had not been installed I just went ahead and ...