Perhaps this is not the right forum to ask, but we all have to start somewhere.

It used to be that you could set the initial size and position of konsole (and any other X application, really) from the command line; in konsole it would be something like:

konsole --geometry=80x25-0+0

to get 80 cols, 25 rows in the upper, right corner. This no longer works, and seems not to have worked for many years (I've seen posts about this from 2004). I know there are ways to get something like the same effect through the System Settings, but then all konsoles nd up in the same place. And apart from that, this is a bit like saying "You can no longer arrange the flowers in your front garden just like that, you now have to go to the high court, take out an injunction against thre neighbors, then complain to the Highway Commission, get a licence from the Water Board and pay three electricians, ..." In a word, it is idiotically complex.

And to be honest, being a developer myself, I find it strange that this is just left to fester for so long; I can't see that it should be a complex issue to fix. I might even do it myself, if only I could find the source code.

Are you sure anyone actually knows it's broken? I mean, is there a bug report?

That being said, it's not a feature I've seen anyone use in the last five years, so it doesn't really surprise me it's not being fixed -- which doesn't mean it shouldn't be, of course.

Cheers,
Sven

try using the --nofork option and note that the size parameters are pixels and not characters

also geometry seems to work fine in some other KDE apps fine, did not for Konversation

there are bug reports:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165355
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147094

scummos: I think it is known and has been for a long time; I have found people complaining about it from long back. Seeing that KDE is a well managed project, I am confused why a simple error like this could go unnoticed in the first place. Especially since KDE4 seems to come with things like session-restore turned on by default (I certainly had to turn it off when I installed Debian 7) - one can hardly avoid noticing how the restored applications open up all over the place.

It would have been nice too, if it was possible to specify which desktop to place a window on.

google01103: --nofork seems to have no effect when I test it from the command line - which perhaps isn't so surprising. It seems that konsole accepts --geometry, but ignores it.

all I can tell you is that it works for me

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konsole --nofork --geometry=280x325-0+220

Does the --geometry argument only fail for the first window, or for all windows?

Sorry guys - I have been out of action for a while, so I didn't your replies.

google01103: I have tried your command line and many others, and it makes no difference. Which version do you use - mine is 2.8.4, apparently (64 bit).

bcooksley: --geometry fails for all instances of konsole. I haven't tried with other applications, though, so I don't know if it is a global problem or just in konsole.

running 2.11.3 64bit

Please try with other applications, as this is a Qt level command line argument.