Konsole

Konsole
Screenshot of Konsole in KDE Plasma 6
Developers	Lars Doelle, Robert Knight
Stable release	24.12.11  / 5 January 2025
Written in	C++ (KDE Frameworks, Qt)
Type	Terminal emulator
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	apps.kde.org/konsole/
Repository	invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole

Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator graphical application which is part of KDE Applications and ships with the KDE desktop environment. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle.² It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later³⁴⁵ and the GNU Free Documentation License.⁶

KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate,⁷ KDevelop, Kile, Konversation, Konqueror, and Krusader, use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.

• Built-in support for bi-directional text display.
• Tabbed terminals. Tab titles update dynamically depending on the current activity in the terminal.
• Translucent backgrounds⁸
• 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 directory⁹
• Export of output in plain text or HTML format
• Multiple profile support
• Text reflow¹⁰

Up to the KDE 4.0, Konsole internal functionality was split into a backend and frontend parts. The backend 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.¹¹

With newer versions Konsole on Linux systems uses PTY (pseudoterminal interface) abstraction implemented by KPty KDE framework introduced in 2014.

• Konsole split-view modes
• 
  Left-to-right
• 
  Top-to-bottom