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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Terminal options
From:       "Robert Knight" <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-01-22 18:32:00
Message-ID: 13ed09c00801221032w16b58b4ap9db8709e15f4c087 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hello,

> Incidentally, any reason there's no 'man konsole' (or is this just a distro
> problem)?

In KDE 3, that is a distribution problem.  In KDE 4, Konsole doesn't
have any help files yet, other than the result of konsole --help.

Regards,
Robert.

On 21/01/2008, Tony Bloomfield <tonyb.lx@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 09:36:57 kde-devel-request@kde.org wrote:
> >> I guess I'm bashing my head against a brick wall here, since an hour or so
> >> of searching indicates that this question has been asked, but never
> >> answered (functionally) many times over the last few years. What are the
> >> 'Terminal options' (in konq, right-click
> >> icon/Properties/Application/Advanced)?
>
> >Right click on "what"?
> >What exactly are you referring to?
>
> Sorry, I thought 'konq, right-click icon' was clear enough. Perhaps I should
> have mentioned that this was a 'run app' icon.
>
> >> Are they in fact options to konsole?
>
> >Presumably this the case. In KDE 3 you could try using the --geometry
> >WIDTHxHEIGHT option.
>
> This does in fact seem to be true. I don't see a --geometry option listed
> in 'konsole --help', but the similar -vt_sz option does more or less what I
> want, thanks.
>
> I actually tried creating an independent konsole window, maximizing it, saving
> that as a profile called 'maximized', and adding '--profile maximized' to my
> Terminal Options. This caused a strange effect; when I ran it, what seemed to
> be a large window flashed briefly on and off the screen, then a normal sized
> konsole window opened. But it completely failed to run the associated script.
> I guess there will have been an error message somewhere, but it wasn't
> in /var/log/messages, or in .xsession-errors. Any ideas where else I might
> look?
>
> Incidentally, any reason there's no 'man konsole' (or is this just a distro
> problem)?
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
> TonyB
>
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