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Written in
  
C++ (KDELibs, Qt)

Website
  
konsole.kde.org

Type
  
Terminal emulator

Konsole

Developer(s)
  
Lars Doelle, Robert Knight

Stable release
  
16.12.1 (12 January 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-12)) [±]

License
  
GNU General Public License

Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator which is part of KDE Applications. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle.

KDE applications, such as Konqueror, Krusader, Kate, Konversation, Dolphin and KDevelop use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.

As of July 2014, Yakuake, Konsole, Dolphin, Kate and KDE Telepathy, among others, are in the process of being ported to KDE Frameworks 5.

Features

  • Supports 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
  • Incremental search
  • 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

    • References

    Konsole Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA