[KDE-India] [Review] Konsole

[gaurav chaturvedi]

Konsole Review

A bit of Konsole history:-
	Konsole is the brain child of Lars Doelle (Hey Lars, thanks for all
the fish!),konsole is often confused with xterm. Konsole is a total
rewrite of the x-windows terminal manager called xvt, the konsole
project was infact started a little before KDE project itself.

Konsole Overview:-
	Konsole is the default Linux console emulation tool for KDE and is
included in the kde-base package, You will probably use konsole to do
all kind of dirty work, from getting system status,killing rouge apps,
ssh, setting environment variables, playing command line games ;-),
editing configuration files, you name it. This is the KDE
swissarmyknife. In fact I bet that you have knosole open somewhere in
the background as you are reading this.

Usage:-
	Starting Konsole is very simple.
	The shortcut for Konsole resides in Application >> System Tools >> Konsole.
	Alternatively (If you have katapult installed) press Alt + Space, and
type "konsole".

Features:-
	The main reason for people to use konsole is because you can have
differnt tabbed sessions going, and there is no limit to howmany tabs
you can keep.
	Hence switching from one tab to another is really simple (also you
have the option de-tach your tab in case you want a separate one).

	You also have the option to Customize your tab settings. You can
rename your tabs to the name of your choice, also you can have your
tabs in different colours for easy recognition.
	(Just right click on the tab and you will get the option to your
session and to change its colour.)

	You can also change the font and font colour.
	(Just check out the sessions menu)

	If you like transparency then even that has been taken care of here. ;-)
	(Go to Settings >> Schema >> Transparent Konsole)

	Other somewhat redundant but a really groovy feature is the use of
zmodem protocol to transfer files. All you have to is install the
package lrzsz to use this feature.
	
	The feature I like the best is "Send input to all sessions", that way
whatever you type gets reflected in all your sessions, so if you want
to make the same modifications in many places. Then your life becomes
very simple. Just make your edits in one session and it gets reflected
in all the sessions.