[Konsole-devel] [Bug 297224] New: Command-line options ignored when stdout redirected to /dev/null

[Rogier]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297224

            Bug ID: 297224
          Severity: normal
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
           Summary: Command-line options ignored when stdout redirected to
                    /dev/null
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: rogier777 at gmail.com
          Hardware: Debian testing
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: konsole

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When starting konsole from the command-line, with stdout redirected to
/dev/null, it ignores certain command-line options.

Examples:
    prompt $ konsole --title "My custom title"
Results in a new konsole window with the desired title, whereas
    prompt $ konsole --title "My custom title" > /dev/null
Results in a new konsole window with the default title

Whereas the title is a minor inconvenience (AFAIAC), the display option is also
ignored:
    prompt $ konsole --display :1.0
Results in a new konsole window on display :1.0
    prompt $ konsole --display :1.0 > /dev/null
Results in a new konsole window on (presumably) the display that konsole was
first started on. This is particularly inconvenient in the following case:
    session-on-display 0 $ konsole --display 1:0
new konsole session opens on display 1:0
    session-on-display 1 $ konsole
another new konsole session opens on display 1:0, as expected
    session-on-display 1 $ konsole > /dev/null
a new konsole session opens on display 0, whereas it is obviously expected on
display 1.

When started with --nofork, the following message is printed:
    prompt $ konsole --nofork > /dev/null
unnamed app(12905): KUniqueApplication: Can't setup D-Bus service. Probably
already running. 

The above tests were run from my standard KDE session.

When konsole is started outside of a KDE session, e.g. from a remote login
shell, this problem does not occur, and the command-line options are processed
as expected. Example:
    myhost $ konsole --title custom > /dev/null
opens a konsole window with the default title, ignoring the command-line option
    myhost $ rsh myhost
    Last login: Sun Apr  1 10:23:54 CEST 2012 from myhost on pts/48
    Linux myhost 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 06:25:07 UTC 2012 x86_64
    myhost $ konsole --title custom > /dev/null
opens a konsole window with the title 'custom', as expected.
    myhost (new konsole session) $  konsole --title different-custom-title >
/dev/null
again, opens a konsole window with the title 'different-custom-title', as
expected.

Regards,

Rogier

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
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