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Konsole is a terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.

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Getting 256 colors to work in tmux

I have 256 colors working just fine in konsole,. I thought I'd give tmux a try because, unlike screen, it seems to support vi mode. However I find that the colors of my prompt show up and this is most likely because I have a 256 color mode prompt.…
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How to automatically record all your terminal sessions with script utility

What I want to achieve is be able to record my terminal sessions to file automatically whenever I use Yakuake/Konsole. It's easy to achieve if at the start of my session I do: script -f /home/$USER/bin/shell_logs/$(date…
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Ugly Horizontal Lines Displayed in Kate and Konsole with Fractional HiDPI Scaling

Here is a picture of the problem: Notice that all lines of text have horizontal lines similar to underlining. However, this is a plain text editor (Kate) and it does not do underlining. There is no formatting applied to this text. I selected the…
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Is there a way to persistently disable the menu bar in Konsole on Gnome 3?

I'm running Konsole 16.08.3-1 (installed via pacman) as my default terminal emulator under Gnome 3.22.2. Normally, when I start Konsole, I hit Ctrl+Shift+M to hide the menu bar; I only sparingly use it, and generally the white menu bar distracts…
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How can I type Unicode characters into KDE's Konsole terminal from a Gnome desktop?

I use Ubuntu. In 'gnome-terminal', I can type Unicode code points by first typing Ctrl+Shift+u followed by the code point hex value, e.g. C-S-u 2468 produces ⑨ konsole, my preferred terminal, does not have this C-S-u (Gnome) feature... Is there some…
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How to set the default browser in KDE?

2021 update: the unexpected behavior described below was actual in KDE Plasma v5.18.5, but isn't actual in 5.22.3 anymore. Linux has many ways of "marking" an application "as a default". You can check some of them using following…
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How can I block select in Konsole?

In terminal emulators like GNOME terminal, I can hold the control key and use my mouse to select a block of text. Doing the same in Konsole has no effect -- the mouse simply selects one character after another, to the end of each line, wrapping…
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Scrolling is disabled all of a sudden in terminal

Sometimes I use the terminal (konsole) and all of a sudden the behaviour when mouse scrolling goes from scrolling through past output to scrolling through the history on the command prompt, and there is no way to see the past output anymore. (The…
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possible to join/attach Konsole windows?

In KDE's Konsole, if I have a Konsole window open with multiple tabs and accidentally click and drag a tab off into its own window, is there any way to re-attach it to the tabs of the original Konsole window? I've tried dragging it back onto the…
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Are there any linux terminals which can handle all key combinations?

I like to use emacs in terminal mode (-nw), but it seems most (all?) terminals can't handle some key combinations - for example, C- or C-M-%. I know this is because most terminals emulate a VT-100, which didn't have these combinations. Are…
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KDE Konsole: how to save and restore current session?

KDE Konsole does not have a feature to save the current session (opened tabs, current directory etc.) How can we save/restore the current session?
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Disabling line wrap in Konsole

Is there a way to prevent konsole from wrapping lines? It would be great if I could do it without disabling any of the other features like extended colors and other of the fancier things.
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Why is konsole reading /etc/passwd?

In relation to this question: While observing the behavior of fatrace, I notice something which concerns me. Here are the first few lines of output of the command "fatrace|grep konsole" konsole(4112): O /etc/passwd konsole(4112): CO…
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Overriding the shade of color displayed

I have to work on systems which display some colors that are hard to read. I ssh into these systems, but don't have management permission to change the colors they display. Is there any way I can override the shade's of colors in my terminal…
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Make terminal text color different when in ssh session

Is there a way to make my terminal (konsole) display different text colors when I'm in an ssh session WITHOUT modifying the remote host's color configuration? Like, maybe automatically switching to a different profile? Konsole can use these…
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