Terminal window keeps being fullscreen

[William Unruh]

If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

[Jim]

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

Change to Gnome desktop!

But if you wish to continue with KDE,

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/konsole/konsole/commandreference.html

Settings → Configure Konsole...
Opens the Konsole settings editor

This dialog has options influencing the appearance and behaviour of
the Konsole window.

The General page allows configuring the menubar visibility,
remembering the Konsole window size, running all Konsole windows
in a single process, enabling menu accelerators, showing window
title on the titlebar, removing window titlebar and frame, and
focusing terminals when the mouse pointer is moved over them. It
is also possible to configure the search case sensitivity, usage
of the regular expression, highlighting all matches, and the
search direction (Search backwards is the default). The General
page is also the place where you can Enable all "Don't Ask Again"
messages again if they were switched off before.

Cheers!

jim b.

[Vincent Coen]

Hello William!

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

On my system I reduce down to size I want then exit, reopen and it is at
the changed size but this may depend on the console you are using and the
settings of of it. Here I use qterminal with unlimited history and save
size both under File.Preferences.behaviour




Vincent

[William Unruh]

Post by Vincent Coen
Hello William!

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

On my system I reduce down to size I want then exit, reopen and it is at
the changed size but this may depend on the console you are using and the
settings of of it. Here I use qterminal with unlimited history and save
size both under File.Preferences.behaviour

Yes, that is what I expect to happen and it sometimes does. But then it
will display full-screen when I click on the cosole icon. I never run it
full screen, so I have no idea where it is getting the full screen
command from.

Post by Vincent Coen
Vincent

[Vincent Coen]

Hello William!

Post by William Unruh

Post by Vincent Coen
Hello William!

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often

it

Post by William Unruh
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

On my system I reduce down to size I want then exit, reopen and it
is at the changed size but this may depend on the console you are
using and the settings of of it. Here I use qterminal with
unlimited history and save size both under
File.Preferences.behaviour

Yes, that is what I expect to happen and it sometimes does. But then
it will display full-screen when I click on the cosole icon. I never
run it full screen, so I have no idea where it is getting the full
screen command from.

It retains the format from the LAST time you used it so if you expand the
size for ANY reason then exit - it will remember those settings and the
only solution is to resize back to the one you want and in my case it is 80
x 43.

ANY time you change the default size you MUST resize back before exit.

This does assume you are using the same user settings for a specific user.
It will not work if you say log in (or su or sudo).
Always resize back to default first before exit.



Vincent

[faeychild]

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

The first I would try is rename "~/.config/konsolerc" and restart
Then setup Konsole the way you want and go from there.
Under Setting>General there is a Remember Window Size check box.
Not tested this; mine is checked

Remember, Bit Twister would ask; does it happen with the junk user?, if
not then it's YOUR config. I constantly forget this direction and waste
hours raging off somewhere.

I have had "kwinrc" periodically fail on me and I lose access to my
desktop effects. All the settings are intact. They just don't work.

Regards

[William Unruh]

The problem is that this tends to occur on the first screen opening
after bootup (on a laptop) My desktop will open and there will be say
two konsole screens open on the desktop remembered from the last
shutdown. They are regular screens, each coverng maybe a third of the desktop
area. I then click on the konsole icon to pen a third. That third one,
(the first one I open from the icon) will open as full screen. I never
had full screen open on my last time I ran the machine. After I change
the full screen window to multiscreen, thereafter the clicking the
konsole icon brings up a regular (non-fullscreen) version.

It is that initial full-screen version that is annoying.

Post by faeychild

Post by William Unruh
If I want to open a Konsole window, I click on the icon, and often it
opens full screen, which I do not want. How to I get it to open
non-fullscreen?

The first I would try is rename "~/.config/konsolerc" and restart
Then setup Konsole the way you want and go from there.
Under Setting>General there is a Remember Window Size check box.
Not tested this; mine is checked
Remember, Bit Twister would ask; does it happen with the junk user?, if
not then it's YOUR config. I constantly forget this direction and waste
hours raging off somewhere.
I have had "kwinrc" periodically fail on me and I lose access to my
desktop effects. All the settings are intact. They just don't work.
Regards

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by William Unruh
The problem is that this tends to occur on the first screen opening
after bootup (on a laptop) My desktop will open and there will be say
two konsole screens open on the desktop remembered from the last
shutdown. They are regular screens, each coverng maybe a third of the desktop
area. I then click on the konsole icon to pen a third. That third one,
(the first one I open from the icon) will open as full screen. I never
had full screen open on my last time I ran the machine. After I change
the full screen window to multiscreen, thereafter the clicking the
konsole icon brings up a regular (non-fullscreen) version.
It is that initial full-screen version that is annoying.

Have you run konsole after using su (without the " -") to become root leaving
config files for it owned by root?

Check with "tree -ifaug .config/|grep konsole|less".

Regards, Dave Hodgins