Hi,
I would like to obtain the same behaviour of F4 key in dolphin than for konqueror. I mean, to just "open a terminal here" and not a Panel as is now in dolphin. There is any way to do this?. I know that with the right button of the mouse it is possible to do this, but to me is much easier to just press F4.
Thanks a lot

As far as I can see, there is no way to do that ATM. There even isn't a way to configure the shortcut key, so I assume this behaviour is hardcoded. You may want to check bug.kde.org for an existing feature request.

It is bugs.kde.org.

msoeken wrote:It is bugs.kde.org.

Thanks, it is time to wait for further versions of dophin

There is sort of a way to do this, but it is still tied to dolphin. You can detach the terminal from Dolphin by simply dragging it away from the main window, and it will stay unstuck when opening and closing it via the F4 key. But it is still 'connected' to whatever directory dolphin is at when you change directories there.

claydoh wrote:There is sort of a way to do this, but it is still tied to dolphin. You can detach the terminal from Dolphin by simply dragging it away from the main window, and it will stay unstuck when opening and closing it via the F4 key. But it is still 'connected' to whatever directory dolphin is at when you change directories there.

Thank for replying, but it's still useless to my purposes because: i) I use several tabs in one konsole, which is not possible in the F4 panel of dolphin. ii) The focus after F4 is on dolphin, not on the terminal, and iii) if I change to another folder in dolphin the terminal directory will change too... really annoying to me, but I guess that is matter of time (hope!!!).

Deleted. Sorry for the noise.

Unless I've misunderstood what you are talking about, Dolphin already does this.

Right click a folder, and select Actions->Open Terminal Here which opens a konsole terminal opened in the directory you've clicked on.

Odin wrote:Unless I've misunderstood what you are talking about, Dolphin already does this.

Right click a folder, and select Actions->Open Terminal Here which opens a konsole terminal opened in the directory you've clicked on.

True, but that's fairly inconvenient if you want a terminal in the folder you're currently browsing.

Hi all

5 years later, still trying to solve the same problem.

finally, you can take the second way

ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install konsole

chimorro wrote:Hi all

5 years later, still trying to solve the same problem.

finally, you can take the second way

ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install konsole

Sorry, I do not fully understand you there.

Here on KDE 4.11.5 I can just press Shift+F4 to open a Konsole _window_ in the current folder (or F4 for a tab).
The shortcut can also be changed in Settings->Configure Shortcuts.

And of course you have to have konsole installed for that to work.

in your system, everything works right. You just may need to select which keyboard combination you like to open your pretty terminal.

Mine, and others like I see, I press F4 or Shift+F4 and appears a warning 'no such "konsole" program to run' or something else.
In the Settings->Configure Shortcuts you can't setup other program to run, nor change the working path, .. just Key combinations.

Ups. My desktop is gnome, not kde, then my default terminal is 'gnome-terminal'; so, by deffaut, I have not installed 'konsole'.

May be this was the key.

chimorro wrote:Mine, and others like I see, I press F4 or Shift+F4 and appears a warning 'no such "konsole" program to run' or something else.
In the Settings->Configure Shortcuts you can't setup other program to run, nor change the working path, .. just Key combinations.

You can choose the terminal application in KDE's systemsettings, "Standard Components".

The working path is set to the directory you're currently browsing in Dolphin.

If you just want to start Konsole/another terminal program by the press of a key, set a global shortcut, not one in dolphin. But I can't tell you how/if you can do that in GNOME.

In terms of Konsole being missing from your system - there is very little Dolphin or any other part of KDE can do about this. In most circumstances, unless Dolphin is installed standalone, Konsole will also be installed on the system.