Konsole
Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator 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 v2 or later[3][4][5] and the GNU Free Documentation License.[6] Konsole includes many projects which may themselves have their own licences. However konsole itself is protected under the GPL v2[3] [4] [5] or later, and GNU Free Documentation License[6]. This is due to the smaller projects within konsole having compatible licenses.
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Developer(s) | Lars Doelle, Robert Knight |
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Stable release | 20.04.2 (11 June 2020[1]) [±] |
Repository | https://github.com/KDE/konsole https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole |
Written in | C++ (KDE Frameworks, Qt) |
Type | Terminal emulator |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | konsole![]() |
KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate,[7] KDevelop, Kile, Konversation, Konqueror, and Krusader use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.
Features

A Konsole window featuring window split (added in 2007)
- Built-in support for bi-directional text display.
- Tabbed terminals. Tab titles update dynamically depending on the current activity in the terminal.
- Translucent backgrounds[8]
- 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.[9]
- Export of output in plain text or HTML format
Notes
- "KDE's June 2020 Apps Update". KDE. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/commit/?id=d8f741181967eee423f9234726443a4684f89310
- "COPYING.LIB". https://github.com/KDE/konsole/blob/master/COPYING.LIB. External link in
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(help) - Cullmann, Christoph (January 6, 2004). "Writing a Kate Plugin". kate-editor.org. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- "Konsole - KDE UserBase Wiki". userbase.kde.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
- "New features in Konsole in KDE 4.0". The KDE Source Repository. 2008-01-05.
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