Adding a Konsole Session

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Michael Hirsch<mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Tim Johnson<tim at johnsons-web.com> wrote:
>> Greetings:
>> Is it possible to add a konsole session to the
>> konsole->Session Menu?
>>
>> Example: In addition to
>>
>> MC, root MC, shell, python - it would be great to add Mutt and some
>> less-well-known interpreters. Links to relevant discussions are
>> welcome.
>
> I've never tried that.  But I've created scripts that can open konsole
> and run custom code in it using dcop.  Then I create K-Menu items of
> those scripts to create menus of custom konsoles.  But I don't know
> how to modify the Konsole menu itself.

But looking at it, it seems pretty easy.  You just add new .desktop
files to /usr/share/apps/konsole which provides them to all users, or
if you only want them for yourself, add them to
~/.kde/share/apps/konsole/.

I've tested this with KDE 3.5.  God knows how it works in KDE 4.x, but
I bet it is something simliar.  I added a mylinux.desktop file to
~/.kde/share/apps/konsole/ and it showed up in the menu of a new
konsole.  Strangely, the Name field in the file didn't affect how it
showed up, but the Comment field did.  That seems backwards, to me.

Michael