Can anybody give any hint on how to use the -p option? The help says:

-p Change the value of a profile property.

But no matter how hard I shake or how hard I dance, nothing seems to work. I want to use this in combo with --new-tab. Is there a property list somewhere? Thx.

You can probably find a list of properties in one of the profiles files located in the profiles folder ( $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/konsole )

bcooksley wrote:You can probably find a list of properties in one of the profiles files located in the profiles folder ( $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/konsole )

I had looked at that, but there were relatively few there (maybe 10), so I was thinking there might be more. What I'd *like* to do, is open a tab with --new-tab, change directories and then set the tab title. The last one is where I'm stuck and thought there might be a "property" for that. Thx.

You may need to change the title from the default to make it write the property names.

Doesn't seem to save anything to disk. I am running konsole on gnome so maybe that effects things. Thx.

The two property values appear to be:

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[General]
Icon=utilities-terminal
LocalTabTitleFormat=%d : %n
MenuIndex=1
Name=Shell
Parent=FALLBACK/
RemoteTabTitleFormat=%h : %u

According to my Konsole profile.
The appropriate options look like "RemoteTabTitleFormat" and "LocalTabTitleFormat"

bcooksley wrote:The two property values appear to be:

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[General]
Icon=utilities-terminal
LocalTabTitleFormat=%d : %n
MenuIndex=1
Name=Shell
Parent=FALLBACK/
RemoteTabTitleFormat=%h : %u

According to my Konsole profile.
The appropriate options look like "RemoteTabTitleFormat" and "LocalTabTitleFormat"

Ah! Excellent. The 'Format' in there threw me. I never would have associated that.

Since I got you handy, I have one more problem. I have multiple console windows open. No matter which window I 'konsole --new-tab', the tab is created in the first window opened, and not the one from which it was invoked. I don't see an option to control this. Or is it something else?

Thanks for the help.

You may be able to use Konsole's DBus interface to perform this. I believe it has options for parameters and creating new tabs.

Running konsole is always going to cause a new instance to be created unfortunately.

bcooksley wrote:You may be able to use Konsole's DBus interface to perform this. I believe it has options for parameters and creating new tabs.

You can. But why when konsole cli will do the same things for you?

Running konsole is always going to cause a new instance to be created unfortunately.

You've been misinformed. e.g. the following will simply open a new konsole tab:-

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konsole --new-tab --p Icon=network-server -e ssh -t scott@sumserver screen -dR

Kind regards