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– konsole --nofork -e sleep 3 ; echo 1
– kdesu -u kdeuser konsole --nofork
• Some fonts might be unavailable for usage in Konsole, although they are available in other
applications. That doesn’t mean there isa bug inKonsole. Konsole requires monospaced fonts
to provide the best visual result, so it asks Qt™ to only list monospaced fonts.
If you are sure a font is really monospaced but unavailable in Konsole, then please report the
problem toQt.
• Since KDE4 all the tabsuse the same process ID. This hasthe side-effect that if one tab’sprocess
has issues, all the other tabs may experience issues as well.
This is most noticeable when a command that connects to an external device or system (ssh,
nfs) has issues.
• Konsole treats arguments after the -e option as one command and runs it directly, instead of
parsing it and possibly dividing it into sub-commands for execution. This is different from
xterm.
– konsole -e ´´command1 ; command2´´ does not work
– konsole -e $SHELL -c ´´command1 ; command2´´ works
• Konsole doesn’t provide convenience for running login shell, because developers don’t like
the idea of running login shell in a terminal emulator.
Of course, usersstill can run login shell inKonsole if they really need to. Edit the profile in use
and modify its command to the form of starting a login shell explicitly, such as ´´bash -l´´ and
´´zsh -l´´.
• The --new-tab option sometimes behaves strangely. It may create new window, or it may
create new tab in another existing Konsole window instead of the current Konsole window.
Those behaviors feel strange, but they are not necessarily bugs. The --new-tab option tries
to reuse existing Konsole windows, but not all Konsole windows are reusable. All Konsole
windows opened through KRunner are reusable, while most Konsole windows opened from
command line are not.
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