Konsole

Konsole
Screenshot of Konsole in KDE Plasma 6
Developer(s)	Lars Doelle, Robert Knight
Stable release	24.12.1 [1]   / 5 January 2025
Repository	https://github.com/KDE/konsole https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole
Written in	C++ (KDE Frameworks, Qt)
Type	Terminal emulator
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	konsole.kde.org

Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator graphical application which is part of KDE Applications and ships with the KDE desktop environment. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle. ^[2] It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later ^{[3] [4] [5]} and the GNU Free Documentation License. ^[6]

KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate, ^[7] KDevelop, Kile, Konversation, Konqueror, and Krusader, use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.

Features

• Built-in support for bi-directional text display.
• Tabbed terminals. Tab titles update dynamically depending on the current activity in the terminal.
• Translucent backgrounds ^[8]
• Split-view mode
• Directory and SSH bookmarking
• Customizable color schemes
• Customizable key bindings
• Notifications about silence or activity in a terminal
• Incremental search
• Can open Dolphin or the user's preferred file manager at the terminal program's current directory ^[9]
• Export of output in plain text or HTML format
• Multiple profile support
• Text reflow ^[10]

Internals

Up to the KDE 4.0, Konsole internal functionality was split into a backend and frontend parts. The backend was represented by a terminal emulator (the DEC VT102 + xterm emulation program) and the frontend that included terminal display and user interface used to display output characters on a window screen or a printer. ^[11]

With newer versions Konsole on Linux systems uses PTY (pseudoterminal interface) abstraction implemented by KPty KDE framework introduced in 2014.^{[ citation needed ]}

Gallery

• Konsole split-view modes
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  Left-to-right
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  Top-to-bottom

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• List of terminal emulators
• KDE Plasma 5
• KDE neon
• KDE Frameworks
• Bash (Unix shell)

Notes

1. "Konsole" . Retrieved 13 January 2025.
2. "Moving to kdebase (D8f74118) · Commits · Utilities / Konsole · GitLab". 28 October 1998.
3. "COPYING.LIB". github.com/KDE/konsole/blob/master/COPYING.LIB. 31 March 2022.
4. "konsole". kde.org/applications/system/org.kde.konsole.
5. "COPYING". github.com/KDE/konsole/blob/master/COPYING. 31 March 2022.
6. "COPYING.DOC". github.com/KDE/konsole/blob/master/COPYING.DOC. 31 March 2022.
7. Cullmann, Christoph (January 6, 2004). "Writing a Kate Plugin". kate-editor.org. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
8. "Konsole - KDE UserBase Wiki". userbase.kde.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
9. "New features in Konsole in KDE 4.0". The KDE Source Repository. 2008-01-05.
10. "Konsole - KDE Invent". invent.kde.org. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
11. "doc/developer/design/historic/architecture-overview · master · Utilities / Konsole · GitLab". GitLab. Retrieved 2022-10-31.

External links

• Official website