How to open konsole in fullscreen mode

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Is there a command or better yet a setting in the config file to allow me to open konsole (the KDE terminal emulator) in fullscreen mode?

Best Answer

You can open Konsole in fullscreen mode with konsole --fullscreen (That should work only with KDE 4.11 and newer).

However, I assume that you want to be able to open Konsole in fullscreen mode with just clicking icon somewhere, maybe in taskbar. To achieve that, do the following steps:

  1. Copy /usr/share/applications/konsole.desktop to either

    • /usr/share/applications/konsole-custom.desktop (in case you have root rights)

    or

    • ~/.local/share/applications/konsole-custom.desktop (in case you don't have root rights. Also, remember to check that this directory is in your $PATH, and if it's not, add it there).

  2. Replace the line Exec=konsole with Exec=konsole --fullscreen in the file you just copied.

  3. To place that just created Konsole "launcher" to KDE's taskbar, just drag the .desktop file you just created from the Dolphin window to taskbar.

Then click the launcer, and Konsole should open in fullscreen mode.

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