&Gardner.Bell; --> &konsole; is a terminal emulator for the X Window System it is essentially based on the DEC's VT100 and many of it's succesors. &konsole; also referred to as a shell is an essential tool on &linux; and &UNIX; based machines for fast and productive work. Emergency Procedures: On &linux; systems every process runs independently in it's own memory space so it can't accidentally overwrite any other processes memory, unless of course it has root privlidges. If a process in &kde; crashes due to a bug one should not need to worry about it accessing any other active process. To keep track of all system processes use the top command or ps in &konsole;. Using these utilities will make it much easier to find and kill off rogue programs. An example of using signals in &konsole;, &konqueror; has crashed leaving behind a running process of nspluginviewer which is taking up 12% of your memory and 10% of your cpu cycles. In top use the k command switch to kill the task. You will be prompted for the PID and then the signal to send to kill it. For more on info on what signals you can send to a running process see the full manual on signalshere. SSH, sessions, envars, other fun things If your using &konsole; for remote administration consider using &konsole;'s Session feature. To use this click on the menu entry SettingsConfigure &Konsole;. From here choose the Sessionstab and fill in the name for your new session. This will now become your default session when you start &konsole;. When &konsole; is invoked &bash; specific commands and &kde; specific variables are read and executed from~/.bashrcor ~/.bash_profile. The preferred configuration file for user environments is ~/.bash_profile, the commands printenv or env can be used to display all currently set variables. To set a variable in the shell use VARNAME="value". For a full list of variables that can be set in &kde; see the wiki. Some tips and tricks To rename &konsole;'s session use &Ctrl;&Alt;Sand enter the new name. If you find the need to run any &kde; program with root privledges such as &konqueror; file manager you can use the &kdesu; command with the -c switch from the command line like this kdesu -c -n PROGRAM, using the -n switch will prevent &kde; from remembering your passwords.