The K Desktop Environment

2.6. Command-line options

When Konsole is started from the command-line, various options can be specified to modify its behavior.

--help

List the various options

--name

Set the name that appears in the titlebar

--ls

Start a login shell

--nowelcome

Suppress the "Welcome to Konsole" message that normally appears in the titlebar

-T,--title

Set the window title

--xwin

Ignored

--nohist

Disable the saving of lines that scroll off the top of the window

--notoolbar

Start Konsole without a toolbar

--vt_sz CCxLL

Start a terminal window of CC Columns and LL lines

-e <command>

Execute <command> instead of shell

For instance:


 bash$ konsole --vt_sz 90x25 --nohist

starts a Konsole window with 90 columns and 25 rows, with no history


Konsole also accepts generic Qt™ and KDE options:

--help-qt

List Qt-specific options

--help-kde

List KDE-specific options

--help-all

List all options

--author

Show the author(s) names

-v,--version

Show the version number

--license

Show license information