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Konsole's interface ( particularly the menus and settings ) have
changed in KDE 4. These are notes on what needs to be covered
in the handbook and somewhere to draft a layout for the documentation.
-- Robert Knight (robertknight@gmail.com)
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khindenburg - Aug 2008
The handbook has been updated to trunk/ which will be 4.2.
The menus and command-line options are correct.
There is room for more information which could include some of the ideas below.
Also a FAQ section needs to be added.
Consider adding link to updated Handbook on konsole.kde.org
Consider what to do with konsole.kde.org
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Introduction
- What is Konsole?
- What is a terminal?
- How can I learn to use the terminal?
Ideas:
-> Information on more beginner-friendly shells such as Fish
-> Basic introduction?
-> Links to beginners tutorial for Bash shell
-> Links to information on scripting languages
-> Links to information on Vim, Emacs etc.
- ( Konsole features )?
- A brief list of useful features in Konsole with links
to the appropriate section of the handbook.
Basic Usage
- Creating new tabs
- Creating new windows
- Closing a tab or window
- Input
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Opening links and email addresses
- Edit actions
- Copy and Paste
- Tab titles and renaming the tab
- Copying input to all tabs
- Scrolling
- Scrolling output
- With the mouse
- With the keyboard
- Clearing the display
- Clearing the current display only
- Clearing everything
- Changing the scroll-back size
- Searching output
- Saving output
- View actions
- Changing the text size temporarily
- Splitting the view
- Uses of split view
- What happens when the view is split?
- How to split the view: Left/Right , Top/Bottom
- Closing (unsplitting) the view: Close active view, close others
- Changing the size of the views
- Using the mouse
- Using the keyboard shortcuts
- Monitoring for silence or activity
- Hiding the menu bar
- Full screen mode
- Entering into and exiting from
- Moving a tab between windows
- Bookmarks
- Creating a new bookmark
- Bookmarking a set of tabs as a folder
- Local vs SSH bookmarks
Konsole Setup : Profiles
- What is a profile
- Changing the current profile in a tab
- Editing the current profile
- General
- Name
- Command
- Working directory
- Icon
- Environment editor
- The $TERM environment variable
- Menu Bar display
- Tabs
- Tab titles
- Local vs Remote
- Inserting dynamic elementss
- Tab bar position
- Tab bar display mode
- Color Schemes and Fonts
- Choosing and previewing a color scheme
- Changing the text size
- Changing the font
(Link -> Color Schemes)
- Scrollback
- Scroll back types ( none , fixed line count , unlimited )
- Scroll bar position
- Keyboard Setup
- Choosing a keyboard binding
(Link -> Keyboard Bindings)
- Advanced
- Managing profiles
- Creating new profiles
- Creating a new session from a profile
- Editing existing profiles
- Removing profiles
- Favorite profiles
- Profile shortcuts
Color Schemes
- Creating new color schemes
- The color palette
- Changing a color
- Transparent color schemes
-> Transparency requirements
- Randomly varied background colors
- Editing existing color schemes
- Removing color schemes
Keyboard Bindings
- Creating a new keyboard binding
- Editing key binding entries
- Key sequence specification
- Output specification
- Escape characters
- Adding a new key binding
- Removing a key binding
- Testing key bindings
- Editing existing bindings
- Removing bindings