Konsole is a

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. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle. It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later and the GNU Free Documentation License. KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate,

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, Kile, Konversation,

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, 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 * Split-view mode * Directory and SSH bookmarking * Customizable color schemes * Customizable key bindings * Notifications about silence or activity in a terminal *

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* Can open Dolphin or the user's preferred file manager at the terminal program's current directory * Export of output in plain text or HTML format *Multiple profile support *Text reflow

Internals

Up to the KDE 4.0, Konsole internal functionality was split into a backend and frontend parts. The backed 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. With newer versions Konsole on Linux systems uses PTY (pseudoterminal interface) abstraction implemented by KPty KDE framework introduced in 2014.

Gallery

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External links

* Free terminal emulators KDE Applications Terminal emulator software that uses Qt {{KDE-stub

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