Command Reference

The Menubar
The menubar is at the top of the window. If the menubar is hidden, Show Menu Bar can be reached by right clicking in the window (as long as no full screen application is running in that window such as vi, minicom, etc.). The default shortcut is listed after each menu item.
Alternatively you can use the shortcut M to show or hide the menubar.

File Menu
N File New Window 	Opens a new separate window with the default profile
T File New Tab 	Opens a new tab with the default profile
ships with a default profile. Any new profiles added by the user will be listed in the submenu. There will be no submenu if only the default profile is to be shown.
File Clone Tab 	Attempts to clone the current tab in a new tab
S File Save Output As... 	Saves the current scrollback as a text or html file
P File Print Screen ... 	Print the current screen. By default the output is scaled to fit the size of the paper being printed on with black text color and no background. In the print dialog these options can be changed on the Output Options tab.
File Open File Manager 	Opens 's file manager at the current directory. By default, that is .
W File Close Tab 	Closes the current tab
Q File Close Window 	Quits
will display a confirmation dialog if there is more than one tab open. This dialog can be disabled by clicking on the Do not ask again checkbox.
If you want to get the confirmation dialog get back, delete the entry

[Notification Messages]
CloseAllTabs=true

in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/konsolerc.

Edit Menu
C Edit Copy 	Copies the selected text to the clipboard
V Edit Paste 	Pastes text from the clipboard at the cursor location
Edit Select All 	Selects all the text in current window
Edit Copy Input To All Tabs in Current Window 	Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to all sessions in current window
. Edit Copy Input To Select Tabs... 	Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to sessions picked by user
/ Edit Copy Input To None 	Stop sending input from current session into other sessions
Edit Send Signal 	Send the specified signal to the shell process, or other process, that was launched when the new session was started.
Currently available signals are:
STOP	to stop process
CONT	continue if stopped
HUP	hangup detected on controlling terminal, or death of controlling process
INT	interrupt from keyboard
TERM	termination signal
KILL	kill signal
USR1	user signal 1
USR2	user signal 2
Refer to your system manual pages for further details by giving the command man 7 signal.
S Edit Rename Tab... 	Opens a dialog box allowing you to change the name of the current tab (more info)
U Edit ZModem Upload... 	Opens up a dialog to select a file to be uploaded if the required software is installed
F Edit Find... 	Opens a search bar at the bottom of 's window
This allows for case sensitive, forward or backwards, and regular expressions searches.
F3 Edit Find Next 	Moves to the next search instance . If the search bar has the focus, you can use the shortcut as well.
F3 Edit Find Previous 	Moves to the previous search instance . If the search bar has the focus, you can use the shortcut as well.

View Menu
( View Split View Split View Left/Right 	Splits all the tabs into left and right views
Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.
) View Split View Split View Top/Bottom 	Splits all the tabs into top and bottom views
Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.
S View Split View Close Active 	Closes the current view
O View Split View Close Others 	Closes all non-current views
] View Split View Expand View 	Makes the current view larger
[ View Split View Shrink View 	Makes the current view smaller
H View Detach Current Tab 	Opens the current tab in a separate window
Quiting the previous window will not affect the newly created window.
I View Monitor for Silence 	Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for lack of activity
By default, after 10 seconds of inactivity, an info icon will appear on the session's tab. The type of alerts can be changed through Settings Configure Notifications Silence in monitored session.
A View Monitor for Activity 	Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for activity
Upon any activity, an info icon will appear on the session's tab. The type of alerts can be changed through Settings Configure Notifications Activity in monitored session.
View Read-only 	Toggles the session to be read-only: no input is accepted, drag and drop is disabled.
+ View Enlarge Font 	Increases the text font size
- View Shrink Font 	Decreases the text font size
View Set Encoding 	Sets the character encoding
View Clear Scrollback 	Clears the text in the scrollback
K View Clear Scrollback and Reset 	Clears the text in the current tab and scrollback and resets the terminal

Bookmarks Menu
B Bookmarks Add Bookmark 	Adds the current location
Bookmarks Bookmark Tabs as Folder... 	Adds all tabs to a bookmark folder
A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.
Bookmarks New Bookmark Folder... 	Adds a new folder to the bookmark list
A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.
Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks 	Opens the bookmark editor
You can use the bookmark editor to manually add URLs. Currently, accepts the following:
ssh://user@host:port
telnet://user@host:port

Settings Menu
Settings Edit Current Profile... 	Opens a dialog to configure current profile
Settings Switch Profile 	Switch current profile to a listed profile
Settings Manage Profiles... 	Opens a editor for managing profiles
M Settings Show Menu Bar 	Toggles the menubar being visible
F11 Settings Full Screen Mode 	Toggles filling the entire screen
Settings Configure Shortcuts... 	Opens the keyboard shortcut editor. More on shortcuts configuration can be found in the Fundamentals.
Additionally has a few special shortcuts with no corresponding menu item:
Shortcut	Description
Right	Next Tab
Left	Previous Tab
Left	Move Tab Left
Right	Move Tab Right
Ins	Paste Selection
	Next View Container
Settings Configure Notifications... 	Opens the notifications editor
Settings Configure ... 	Opens the settings editor
This dialog has options influencing the appearance and behaviour of the TabBar and general options for the window.

Help Menu
has the some of the common Help menu items, for more information read the section about the Help Menu of the Fundamentals.

Dialogs

Rename Tab Dialog
The name of the current tab can be changed from this dialog. The dialog can be displayed via the menu, the shortcut S or by double-clicking on the tab in the tab bar. These changes can be made permanent by editing the current profile.
will substitute these tokens for local tabs:
%n : program name
%d : current directory (short)
%D : current directory (long)
%h : local host (short)
%u : user name
%w : window title set by shell
%# : session number
will substitute these tokens for remote tabs:
%c : current program
%h : remote host (short)
%H : remote host (long)
%u : user name
%U : user name@ (if given)
%w : window title set by shell
%# : session number
Examples:
%d : %n with /usr/src as current directory and running bash will display src : bash
%D : %n with /usr/src as current directory and running top will display /usr/src : top
%w (%#) with ~ as current directory and running vim in the first tab will display [No Name] (~) - VIM(1)

Copy Input Dialog
The text entered in one tab can simultaneously be sent to other tabs. This dialog allows you to select which tabs will get that input. The current tab will be greyed out.

Adjust Scrollback Dialog
The scrollback options for the history size can be changed in this dialog. Any changes are for the current tab only and will not be saved to the profile.