Konsole - App of the Month
Konsole - an overview
Also read the interview with the developer of Konsole, Lars Doelle.
Description of Konsole by Andreas C. Diekmann.
Translation by Fabrice Mous.
Original article can be found at www.kde.de
Konsole is a so called X-terminal emulator. The main author is Lars Doelle (see the interview). The program emulates a terminal in which a shell can be used and gives textbased access to the system. Mostly the combination terminal and shell is simply called terminal, console or shell. A terminal emulator for the X Window System like Konsole makes it easy to share all kind of programs and still use the power of the commandline.
Immediatly when you have started Konsole a shell is started and opens the home directory of the user who is logged in at that moment. You can start more sessions by clicking on the button "New". Keep the button pressed if you want to choose from several session types. You can make your own session types but we will come to that later
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You can choose the look very easily. For example, you can choose through the menu 'Settings' the font type, font size and the colour schemas.
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You can find more options under 'Settings' -> 'Configure Konsole...', tab page 'General' . Here you can select if you want a blinking cursor, which characters should be considered part of a word (double click for a word) or after how many seconds Konsole can consider a session inactive. More about this later.
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The above mentioned colourschemes can be made and changed onder the tab page "Schema"
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Under the tab page "Session" you can adapt your own session schemes just like the colour schema's or you can adapt existing session schemes. You can make sessions where a certain program is started (instead of the standard shell). We can configure which program will be started with which arguments, which keyboardschema the session will use and which title and which icon the (new) session will have.
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Under the menu 'View' you can find the option to rename the current session or you can move your session to the left or the right when there are more sessions opened. You can also detach a session to "live on" in his own window. Also you can configure if you want to receive an email when the session shows activity or silence.
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This monitoring of activity can be very convenient when you want to know when a time consuming proces which, like compiling source code, is completed. So you don't need to watch your sessions all the time. The lightbulb icon shows if there is activity or not, which depends on what you set to monitor.
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In the menu "Edit" you can find some typical functions like "Copy" and "Paste" of text and also a very handy function to search a session for a certain string. Furthermore there is the possibility to save the history of your session on your hard disk. Also you can send signals like STOP and CONTINUE to the active session.
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The found string will be visibly marked!
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Just like with a webbrowser you can have bookmarks so you can start a session very easily in any directory.
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Read also the interview with the developer of Konsole, Lars Doelle.
Many thanks to Tom Verbreyt who translated the document to Dutch which was more easy for me translate to English.
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