is it possible to color output in konsole? i'd like certain phrases, e.g., warnings, to be colored to make them more conspicuous.

thanks.

If you have power over the output generated (e.g. you can modify the script/application generating the output) then you can embed escape codes in their output which will tell konsole (or any other terminal emulator) to color the output in a certain colors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code for details.

If you don't have direct power over the output, you can create a script which intercepts the output and inserts the appropriate color escape codes.

Konsole per-se can't be configured to color text which matches certain patterns (except through the use of escape codes)

thanks. i'm trying to color the output of the package manager (pacman). i'll look into escape sequences.

Kind of OT, but since you mentioned pacman... Use pacman-color, which will work on all terminals.