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Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator graphical application which is part of KDE Applications and ships with the KDE desktop environment. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle. It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later and the GNU Free Documentation License.

Key facts

Software.title
Konsole
Software.name
KDE Applications
Software.logo
Breezeicons-apps-48-utilities-terminal.svg
Software.screenshot
Konsole 24.12.0 screenshot.webp
Software.caption
Screenshot of Konsole in KDE Plasma 6
Software.developer
Lars Doelle, Robert Knight
Software.programming language
C++ (KDE Frameworks, Qt)
Software.genre
Terminal emulator
Software.license
GPL-2.0-or-later

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
free software
Part of
KDE Gear
Official website
apps.kde.org/konsole
Image
Konsole 24.12.0 screenshot.webp
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Commons category
Konsole
programmed in
Q2407
GUI toolkit or framework
Q201904
software version identifier
24.12.1
operating system
Q11368
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.freenode.org/#kde
email address
mailto:[email protected]
source code repository URL
invent.kde.org/kde/konsole
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
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  • Internals
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  • See also
  • Notes
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Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator graphical application which is part of KDE Applications and ships with the KDE desktop environment. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle. It ls licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later and the GNU Free Documentation License.

KDE applications, including Dolphin, Kate, KDevelop, Kile, Konversation, Konqueror, and Krusader, use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality via Kpart.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Konsole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.