Command Reference
Table of Contents
The menubar is at the top of the Konsole window. If the menubar is hidden, can be reached by clicking in the window (as long as no full screen application is running in that window such as vi, minicom, etc.). The default shortcut is listed after each menu item.
Opens a new tab with the default profile
Opens a new separate Konsole window with the default profile
Opens a new tab with the Shell profile
Konsole ships with the Shell profile as the default. Any new profiles added by the user will have its own menu item below ->.
Opens KDE's file manager at the current directory. By default, that is Dolphin.
Closes the current tab
Quits Konsole
Konsole will display a window if there is more than one tab open. This window can be disabled by clicking on the checkbox.
Copies the selected text to the clipboard
Pastes text from the clipboard at the cursor location
Opens a dialog box allowing you to change the name of the current tab (more info)
Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to all sessions in current window
Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to user picked sessions (more info)
Stop all input to other sessions
Clears all text from the tab and reset the session
All the text cleared will be stored in the Scrollback.
Splits all the tabs into left and right views
Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.
Splits all the tabs into top and bottom views
Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.
Closes the current view
Closes the non-current view
Makes the current view larger
Makes the current view smaller
Opens the current tab in a separate window
Quiting the previous Konsole window will not affect the newly created window.
Toggles the menubar being visible
Toggles Konsole filling the entire screen
Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for lack of activity
By default, after 10 seconds of inactivity, an info icon will appear on the session's tab. The type of alerts can be changed through ->->.
Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for activity
Upon any activity, an info icon will appear on the session's tab. The type of alerts can be changed through ->->.
Sets the character encoding
Increases the text font size
Decreases the text font size
Opens a search bar at the bottom of Konsole's window
This allows for case sensitive, forward or backwards, and regular expressions searches.
Moves to the next search instance
Moves to the previous search instance
Saves the current scrollback as a text or html file
Opens a dialog to configure number of lines to save (more info)
Clears all text saved in current tab and resets the terminal
Adds the current location
Adds all tabs to a bookmark folder
A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.
Adds a new folder to the bookmark list
A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.
Opens the bookmark editor
You can use the bookmark editor to manually add URLs. Currently, Konsole accepts the following:
ssh://user@host:port
telnet://user@host:port
Changes the profile for the current tab
Opens the profile editor for the current tab
Opens a editor for managing profiles
Opens the keyboard shortcut editor
Opens the notifications editor
Invokes the KDE Help system starting at the Konsole help pages. (this document).
Changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and question mark. Clicking on items within Konsole will open a help window (if one exists for the particular item) explaining the item's function.
Opens the Bug report dialog where you can report a bug or request a “wishlist” feature.
Opens a dialog where you can edit the Primary language and Fallback language for this application.
This will display version and author information.
This displays the KDE version and other basic information.
