The menubar is at the top of the Konsole window. It can be hidden and restored by toggling "Show Menubar" in the "Options" menu. When the menubar is hidden, "Show Menubar" can be reached by right-clicking in the window.
Opens a new session emulating a text-only Linux system.
(See the file README.linux.console for detailed information on how the Linux console differs from a typical Unix console.)
Opens a new session with the Midnight Commander graphical file browser
Opens a new session with a terminal shell
Opens a new session with a terminal shell, as the root user.
After being prompted for the root password, the # prompt appears, indicating that the user is working with root privileges. This is frequently necessary for installing new software and other system maintenance, but care should be taken to avoid accidental damage.
Quits Konsole, closing all sessions and any applications launched from them.
Send Signal - Sends the specified signal to the shell process, or other process, that was launched when the new session was started.
Currently available signals are:
Stop | - | to stop process |
Cont | - | continue if stopped |
HUP | - | hangup detected on controlling terminal, or death of controlling process |
Int | - | interrupt from keyboard |
Term | - | termination signal |
Kill | - | kill signal |
Refer to your system manual pages for further details by giving the command man 7 signal
Changes the name of the active session
At the bottom of the menu is a list of the available sessions. Selecting one makes that session active.
You can use the Shift-Left/Right keys to cycle through the available sesions, too.
Shows or hides the menubar
Shows or hides the toolbar
Shows or hides frame at side of window
Controls location of scrollbar: none, left, or right
Toggles window between full-screen and normal size
Sets size of text area (given in columns x rows)
Sets font size
Sets colors of text and background
The list of these schemata is taken from $KDEDIR/apps/konsole/*.schema. Add to or modify these files to match your needs.
Toggles saving of lines that have scrolled off the top of the window
Not implemented yet
Chooses desired keymapping
The list of these keymappings is taken from $KDEDIR/apps/konsole/*.keymap. Add to or modify these files to match your needs.
Save the current settings as the new defaults
Opens the table of contents of this document
Detailed information on terminal emulation and Konsole
submit a bug report or a feature request for Konsole
Information about Konsole's author
Information about the KDE project