---
name: "konsole"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "konsole"
version: "4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/konsole"
---

# konsole(1)

X terminal emulator for KDE.

## NAME

**Konsole** - X terminal emulator for KDE.

## SYNOPSIS

**Konsole** \[Qt-options\] \[KDE-options\] \[options\] \[args\]

## DESCRIPTION

Konsole is an X terminal emulation which provides a command-line interface (CLI) while using the graphical K Desktop Environment. Konsole helps to better organize user's desktop by containing multiple sessions in a single window (a less cluttered desktop).

Konsole advanced features include simple configuration and the ability to use multiple terminal shells in a single window, making for a less cluttered desktop.

Using Konsole, a user can open:

Linux console sessions

Shell sessions

Screen sessions

Midnight Commander file manager sessions

Root console sessions

Root Midnight Commander sessions

User created sessions

These sessions can be renamed to help you keep track of all your shells, or signaled (STOP, CONT, HUP, INT, TERM, KILL).

For more control over konsole, a user can: hide/show the menubar and/or frame; select the size of a konsole window, fonts, color schemes, and key mapping; change location of the scrollbar or hide the scrollbar; change location of the tabbar or hide the tabbar.

All chosen settings can be made the default for forthcoming sessions by saving them.

## OPTIONS

###

### Konsole specific options:

- **--name \<name\>**

  Set window class

- **--ls**

  Start login shell **-T \<title\>** Set the window title

- **--tn \<terminal\>**

  Specify terminal type as set in the TERM \[xterm\] environment variable

- **--noclose**

  Do not close Konsole when command exits

- **--nohist**

  Do not save lines in history

- **--nomenubar**

  Do not display menubar

- **--notabbar, --notoolbar**

  Do not display tab bar

- **--noframe**

  Do not display frame

- **--noscrollbar**

  Do not display scrollbar

- **--noxft**

  Do not use Xft (anti-aliasing)

- **--vt\_sz CCxLL**

  Terminal size in columns x lines

- **--noresize**

  Terminal size is fixed

- **--type \<type\>**

  Start with given session type

- **--types**

  List available session types

- **--keytab \<name\>**

  Set keytab to 'name'

- **--keytabs**

  List available keytabs

- **--profile \<name\>**

  Start with given session profile

- **--profiles**

  List available session profiles

- **--schema \<name\>**

  \| \<file\>  Set schema to 'name' or use 'file'

- **--schemas, --schemata**

  List available schemata

- **--script**

  Enable extended DCOP Qt functions

- **--workdir \<dir\>**

  Change working directory to 'dir'

- **-e \<command\> \[ arguments \]**

  Execute 'command' instead of shell. It also sets the window title and  icon name to be the basename of the program being executed if neither  -T nor -n are given on the command line.  This must be the last option on the command line.

###

### Arguments:

- **args**

  Arguments for 'command'

###

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v, --version**

  Show version information

- **--license**

  Show license information

- **--**

  End of options

### Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Center. You can also enter the URL

## SEE ALSO

**help:/konsole/** directly into konqueror or you can run  **\`khelpcenter help:/konsole/'** from the command-line.

Konsole homepage:  **http://konsole.kde.org/**

## AUTHORS

Kurt V. Hindenburg \<kurt.hindenburg@kdemail.net\>

Lars Doelle \<lars.doelle@on-line.de\>

## OTHER

This manual page was written by Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez \<ana@ekaia.org\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).