13 Tips and Tweaks to Get More Out of KDE Konsole Terminal

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To place an item on the toolbar, either drag and drop or click on that item in the left pane and then click the right-arrow button.If you go to the Top Right Hamburger menu and Settings → Configure Konsole → Thumbnails, you can enable thumbnail generation.Do you use a particular command repeatedly? Say if you are constantly editing a script file. Here, set the command to edit that file into Quick commands so that it is easily accessible.Konsole comes with a preset profile. You MUST NOT modify this profile. For any modification, you should create a new profile and do not tamper with the default.

1. Open a location in Dolphin file manager

To edit the toolbar, you can go to the Menu → Settings → Configure Toolbar.

Open current location in Dolphin file manager.
Open File Manager

This will open a left-side panel with fields to add a new command. Click on Add to start creating a new Quick Command.

2. Search for text from the current terminal screen

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Find text in the current screen of KDE Plasma Konsole terminal emulator.
Find Text with Options
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You can open the folder in any other file manager installed on your system too. Just select that application from the Open Folder With option in the right-click context menu.The same feature can be obtained in ls command using the –hyperlink option.

3. Managing multiple tabs

Get image thumbnail in KonsoleHere, as a simple new profile, you can set several things as noted below.

Click on New Tab button to create a new tab in Konsole
Click on the New Tab Button

On Konsole, click on the top-right hamburger menu and select Save Output As.In the Profile settings window, go to the Mouse section and then select the Miscellaneous section.

Insert Tab Title bar item by selecting from the dropdown list
Insert Tab Title bar item

If you are a casual user who just wants to use two panes of terminal, Konsole has got your back.

Tabs with colors and title bar details added.
Colored Tabs and Title Bar Details

4. Split the terminal window

Once done with the positioning, lock the toolbar similar to how we unlocked. Right-click on the toolbar (now bottom) and check the Lock Toolbar Position checkbox.The Scrollback data is saved to RAM. Therefore, you should never change the Scrollback to Unlimited or set a very high value. It may be temporarily convenient, but will cause RAM shortage issues in limited resource systems.It is not essential to place the toolbar at the top. You can make it appear on the bottom, left, and right side as well.

Select a split layout from the Split button on Konsole top panel
Select a Split
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Here, you can either show the main toolbar or hide it by unchecking the Main toolbar from Toolbars shown.

Split view in Konsole with three split panes
Split View
The “Load a new tab with axb layout” will create a new tab with the selected splits like 2×2.The “Load a new tab with axb layout” will create a new tab with the selected splits like 2×2.The “Load a new tab with axb layout” will create a new tab with the selected splits like 2×2.The “Load a new tab with axb layout” will create a new tab with the selected splits like 2×2.The “Load a new tab with axb layout” will create a new tab with the selected splits like 2×2.When you list files in a directory, it will be highly beneficial, if you get an option to open it in the preferred app. Konsole can give you that!

In that window, use the “Appearance” tab and click on the New button to create a new color scheme.

  • Read-only: For quickly making a terminal session read-only.
  • Interrupt Task (INT): This is the SIGINT signal. In simpler terms, this is what happens when you press CTRL + C to interrupt a task.
  • Save Output as: To quickly save the output on the screen to a file.
  • Separator and Expanded Separator: To align the items as needed.
  • Split view from Left/Right and Split View from Top-Bottom: This is a personal choice as, I use only the session toolbar and hide the main toolbar (in the next step).

Change the Toolbar position

Name the file and click on Save to save the output to a text file.By default, there are several themes or color schemes available in Konsole. If you are not satisfied with those, create a new and avoid editing existing ones.

Disable Lock toolbar position checkbox by right-clicking on the default Toolbar
Disable Lock toolbar position

At this point, when you hover over a file (including directories), those will be underlined. Other than that, the directories give a small thumbnail too!At times, you will notice that you cannot scroll back after a certain point in the terminal. So, whatever appears on the very top will be inaccessible to you.Konsole supports multiple splits, and the below screenshot shows a three split Konsole layout, with the window control details.If you disable the “Disable drag & drop menu for files & URLs” checkbox, Konsole will give you a small context menu when you drag and drop a file to the Konsole window. This context menu can be used to move that file to pwd, copy it to pwd, create a link there or paste the location of the file to terminal.

Terminal after applying changes to the toolbar
Terminal with changed toolbar

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Customized KDE Plasma terminal with toolbar in the bottom. Also, several necessary items are added to the toolbar for easy access.
Customized KDE Plasma terminal

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By default, there will be a Find, Menu Button, items in the toolbar. It is recommended to not remove these items.

  • By default, when you hover over a color in HEX form, Konsole will preview that color.
  • You can add locations as bookmarks by using CTRL+SHIFT+B.
  • You can open Konsole Handbook with important help articles by pressing the F1 key.

I know you can rely on find and grep to look for text in the terminal. However, your terminal also features a find option to look for text on the terminal output.You can press CTRL and click on any file to open it in the preferred app. Or open a directory in Dolphin.

I suggest you go through the other options in this Scrolling section as well.

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