Configuring and Customizing Konsole

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Mystilleef

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Monday, April 7th 2003, 1:38pm

Configuring and Customizing Konsole

Hello Friends,

I'm new to KDE and Linux. KDE is simply the best Desktop environment I've had the priviledge of using.

However, I prefer command line editing to graphic user instructing. As a result, I'm in love with Konsole.

I was wondering if there was a configuration file that will enable me customize the Konsole prompt to my liking and also enable me to display directories and files in their appropriate colors automatically.

I am able to do this using the /etc/profile configuration file, but apparently it has no effect on Konsole. I use crux linux. By default, crux does not make use of the .bashrc configuration file. So I configure my alias, prompt design, and color using the /etc/profile.

Is there a file similar to /etc/profile that is exclusive to KDE and Konsole and that I can use to make these changes? If so I'll appreciate a little tutorial on how to make the changes and which files to play around with. Thanks in advance.

Mystilleef

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anda_skoa

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Monday, April 7th 2003, 5:49pm

That is only marginally related to Konsole.

If the shell is bash, it will read profile only when being invoked as a login shell.
By default the shell invoked from Konsole is a normal shell.

You can either source /etc/profile in your .bashrc, write the settings into .bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc or modify the shell session entry of konsole so that is starts a login shell (man bash)

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Mystilleef

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Wednesday, April 9th 2003, 3:38am

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modify the shell session entry of konsole so that is starts a login shell (man bash)
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Hello,

anda_skoa, thanks for your insight. How do I go about modifying the shell entry session of konsole. I don't know where the Konsole configuration files are. If I did, I know I have to add 'bash --login' to it, and I can also link the file to /etc/profile. Once again thanks for you suggestions.

Mystilleef

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