Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)

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VIM: How to configure Solarized colorscheme in Konsole

I am trying to configure Solarized for use in VIM in Konsole (KDE terminal). This is the result that I get: Note that Solarized looks fine in GVIM on the same machine: I suspect that it is ...
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How can I clear the scrollback buffer in konsole from bash?

I'm a heavy bash user and konsole is my preferred environment. I know I can use the keyboard command ctrl+shift+x to clear the scrollback buffer, but there's certain points in my scripts where I would ...
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Change terminal colors when connecting to remote server, Linux

I have a habit of changing the terminal background to another color scheme when connected to a remote server. This prevents lots of theoretical, unfortunate mishaps. Is there a way to change the ...
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Broken fonts in Konsole KDE 4.3.4

I have a strange situation - after some upgrades a couple of days ago fonts in KDE Konsole broke. To make it more specific - standard fonts look more or less OK, but when I use my national characters ...
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konsole color schemes

I've noticed that KDE's konsole terminal program uses different colors depending on what is in the file system, such as a directory, a compressed file, a socket, a shared directory, et cetera. I ...
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most reliable linux terminal app / general procedures for process stability

I've been using konsole (KDE 4.2) for a while now but it crashed recently. Konsole is efficiently designed to use one instance for all of the windows for your entire X session. Extra-unfortunately, ...
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Konsole page up/down keyboard shortcut

OS: CentOS 4.6 Using Shift+PgUp is to browse half-page up. Shift+mouse wheel up is one page up. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do a one-page up? Or how to configure Shift+PgUp to browse one-page up? ...
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GNU/Linux: Open programm in Konsole / Term

How can you run an application directly inside a Konsole (KDE) or Terminal (GNOME)? I'm particularly interested in having a shortcut to Emacs: emacs -nw Being in KDE, that would open a Konsole and ...
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Using konsole (kde) color schemes in gnome terminal?

Is there a way to colorize the Gnome terminal in the way the konsole from KDE uses colors? I'd at least like to change the color for user@name:~$, because sometimes it gets pretty hard to read when ...
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How to remove unwanted characters when running command in terminal

I'm using zsh with oh-my-zsh as default shell. When I run a command in guake / gnome-terminal / konsole, a string with format (special-char|command-name|%) appears as the first line of output in ...
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determining the desktop or window ID of a given terminal emulator window from a PID

I want to know which desktop a given process is running in. I can get this from the window ID using wmctrl. I can also find out which terminal emulator process a given process is running in by ...
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How do I get Konsole to show the correct information on the tab when using autossh

I'm a heavy konsole user, and having recently discovered autossh, I'm quite happy adding new tabs using konsole --new-tab -e autossh user@hostname Unfortunately, Konsole's tab text is not following ...
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Adding a shortcut to Konsole that isn't in the “Configure Shortcuts” menu

I was wondering if there was a way to add more shortcuts to Konsole. For example, I'd like to bind CTRL + LEFTCLICK to open links.
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Changing the program name displaying on Konsole, using an alias

I have an alias for irssi:alias irssi="screen irssi. When I am running irssi in Konsole, the tab name shows up as "screen". Is there a way to make it display as "irssi"? My tab format on Konsole is: ...
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Konsole font truncation - only with consolas

When I use Consolas (of any size) as my terminal font, any pixels which hang below the line (such as the tail of a y) get truncated. Look at the second line in the screenshot below. Notice that the ...
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How can I achieve the opposite of kde-open?

Is there any way to achieve the opposite of what kde-open does in KDE? I mean, I want to be able to open files using emacs inside the terminal, instead of using the X version of emacs. I already run ...
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Passing optional extra environment settings to the shell at Konsole launch time

I have a bunch of different "hats" on my computer, including multiple on-the-go projects (e.g., $work, a few projects on github, some on Sourceforge, some I'm involved with, some I just follow, etc.). ...
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KDE Konsole to select text and copy to clipboard

In Ubuntu Terminal, drag and drop selection can copy the text selected into clipboard and Shift+Insert to paste. In KDE Konsole, it seems selection doesn't do copy. So either I have to use mouse ...
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Why new windows or tabs opened in konsole don't show colored text output?

I use bash terminals quite a lot in my daily work, and since I chose KDE for my desktop, I naturally use konsole for opening bash sessions. When I start konsole, the first session shows colored ...
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Opening new terminal window does not pick up .cshrc

I am using KDE and Konsole. When I open a new tab, it does not pick up my .cshrc in my home directory. I am using tcsh. How I do I force re-loading of the .cshrc in my home directory without having to ...
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How to configure KDE Konsole to open new shells on a different machine?

How to configure the KDE Konsole that when I press on a "new tab" button, the new shell would open on another machine (thorugh ssh), and not on the current one?
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kde konsole - how to add shortcut switch-to-tab-10 etc

In konsole, there are only shortcuts for switching to tabs from one to ten. I want to add a new shortcut for switching to tab eleven (and also twelve in the end). Is there a way to do it? I think it ...
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echoing the absolute path of new directory on doing cd

Whenever I do a "cd" at the Konsole, I get a warning msg (echo: Command not found. I think this happens because Konsole tries to output the path to the new directory, but instead of doing echo ...
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24 bit True Color in Konsole

I have yearned to use 24-bit colors in the terminal for applications such as Vim. However, xterm is limited to no more than 256 colors, which I have currently been using. I just recently learned that ...
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kde > how to copy a block of text like I would in gnome-terminal [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: KDE Konsole to select text and copy to clipboard In gnome-terminal, I used ctrl + mouse click > mouse drag to highlight a block of text. Then I can use Ctrl + Shift + ...
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Get Konsole to send control-shift shortcuts to emacs

Im using Konsole in Ubuntu, though I also didn't have any luck with the default Terminal. I'm used to iTerm2 on the Mac. I use emacs in the terminal, and no control-shift shortcuts seem to work. The ...
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Is there a Konsole equivalent for gnome?

I'm looking for a Konsole equivalent for Gnome. I searched Google but was surprised how little I found. I don't want a Quake-style dropdown console. I like tabs and the ability to send a command to ...
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change konsole-profile according to application in KDE

Using the Konsole terminal-emulator with KDE on Kubuntu 9.10 , I would like to have a different konsole profile (colors, icons) whenever I ssh into a server, so I can easily spot in which konsole tab ...