Konsole

Screenshot of Konsole in KDE Plasma 5
Developer(s)	Lars Doelle, Robert Knight
Stable release	22.12.0[1]  / 8 December 2022
Preview release	21.11.90[2]  / 23 November 2021
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.kde.org

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.

Features

• Built-in support for bi-directional text display.
• Tabbed terminals. Tab titles update dynamically depending on the current activity in the terminal.
• Translucent backgrounds^[9]
• 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^[10]
• Export of output in plain text or HTML format
• Multiple profile support
• Text reflow^[11]

Internals

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]}

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