Screenshot of Konsole in KDE Plasma 5 | |
Developer(s) | Lars Doelle, Robert Knight |
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Stable release | 22.12.0[1] ![]() |
Preview release | 21.11.90[2] ![]() |
Repository | https://github.com/KDE/konsole https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole |
Written in | C++ (KDE Frameworks, Qt) |
Type | Terminal emulator |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | 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.[3] It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later[4][5][6] and the GNU Free Documentation License.[7]
KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate,[8] KDevelop, Kile, Konversation, Konqueror, and Krusader, use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.
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.[12]
With newer versions Konsole on Linux systems uses PTY (pseudoterminal interface) abstraction implemented by KPty KDE framework introduced in 2014.[citation needed]