I want to start another terminal and set an environment variable for it. The help for konsole documents passing "properties" but this doesn't seem to work:

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konsole -hold  -p FOO=bar -e printenv

FOO doesn't appear in the output. So how do these properties work?

Using KDE 4.4.5 (Kubuntu 10.04)

Properties belong to Konsole Profiles. Fortunately, this feature is possible. Try:

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konsole -p Environment=TEST=abc

If you need to supply more than one variable, do it as follows:

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konsole -p "Environment=VAR1=Content,VAR2=Bar"

Excellent... works as advertised. Thanks a lot.

If the topic is solved please use the green hook to mark it as solved. Thanks.

JanGerrit wrote:If the topic is solved please use the green hook to mark it as solved. Thanks.

Caught a couple of small flies in the ointment... so for the benefit of future readers:

1) if the command (-e) isn't in the default path the started shell won't find it, so you have to give it full path (`which foo`), or you may have to use another profile with a more complete path.

2) I can't find the proper syntax to pass several environment variables as indicated, the comma doesn't seem to act as a separator, even escaped.

According to the storage of environment variables in the configuration file, a comma is the correct seperator...

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Environment=TERM=xterm,EDITOR=vim

bcooksley wrote:According to the storage of environment variables in the configuration file, a comma is the correct seperator...

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Environment=TERM=xterm,EDITOR=vim

Experimentation with

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konsole -hold -p Environment=FOO=foo,BAR=bar -e printenv


shows otherwise (shortened...):

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WINDOWID=77594663
XDM_MANAGED=method=classic
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share
FOO=foo,BAR=bar
KDE_SESSION_UID=1000
SSH_AGENT_PID=1651
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash

also tried:

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konsole -hold -p Environment=FOO=foo,,BAR=bar -e printenv
konsole -hold -p Environment=FOO=foo\,BAR=bar -e printenv
konsole -hold -p Environment=FOO=foo -p Environment=BAR=bar -e printenv

I would suggest filing a feature request or bug report at bugs.kde.org regarding this.