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konsole is the terminal application (console) that ships with KDE (K Desktop Environment). It features tabbed terminals.

konsole is the terminal application ships with kde. It provides very useful tabbed terminals. The default key-mappings are very intuitive and lets user easily adjust to konsole.

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Clear a terminal screen for real

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. This makes life difficult when you are drowning in a tsunami…
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How to launch a KDE konsole with multiple tabs running various progs?

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 like one step further, to launch a KDE konsole with…
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Change konsole tab title from command line and make it persistent?

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" But as soon as you run something in the console, it…
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Konsole keyboard shortcut for switching between active Split View?

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 mouse, to switch between the active views (see: The…
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True Color (24 bit) in Terminal Emacs

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:…
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How to use escape sequences in a ZSH prompt for truecolor or bold?

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 options in ZSH, like %F{000} %f, but as far as I know,…
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In linux, how can I test whether the output of a program is going to a live terminal or to a file?

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 do git status it will colorize the output for…
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How to launch tmux –automatically– when konsole/yakuake start?

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 to launch tmux –automatically– when yakuake/konsole…
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opening more than one file split vertically through emacs -nw

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: ToggleWindowSplit If I could have emacs call that…
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Printf puts a percent sign after everything it prints

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%. I am on Arch Linux using zsh as a shell and…
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How can one put the output of a command into a konsole title bar?

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?
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Color themes are strange/incorrect in terminal emulator

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: ethanschoonover.com) However, this is what I…
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Git log does not show anything on console

I am using Kubuntu 16.4. LTS. Recently, I have updated my packages using the following commands: sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade Since then, the command git log does not provide any output. When using git log > /tmp/gitlog.txt…
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Renaming a Konsole session from commandline after ssh

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 gives error: ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! Is…
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Does anybody have any experience installing the KDE for Windows port?

I come from a Linux/Unix development background and my latest job uses a Windows XP based development environment. I find that I'm missing a lot of functionality that I got used to when working with Linux and KDE 4. Particularly the Konsole…
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