Something borked my konsole?

george-lappies · 07-10-2011, 12:56 PM

Something happened to my system lately. My konsole size is set to the default 80x40 chars in size. However since yesterday when I open konsole it still opens up 80x40 but it uses only 80x24 space until I manually re-size the konsole to any other size i.e. 83x46 then it will fill the whole console and I re size it back to 80x40.

How do I fix it so that bash knows once more when it starts that my konsole is giving it 80x40 size instead of 80x24

acummings · 07-10-2011, 02:42 PM

Hi. I'm limited knowledge. But, as to just pondering some possibilities:

1. Did you recently change the resolution setting of your desktop?

2. Did you change any font(s) or font settings?

3a. If your X server somehow changed the resolution setting on its dot pitch

Code:

al@P5Q:~/.kde/share/apps/konsole/profiles$ xdpyinfo | grep res
  resolution:    108x115 dots per inch

(I try to not run above 100 dpi but my old eyes needed things to be just even yet a bit larger on screen).

3b. (in konsole) If you somehow switched from a 75 dpi font to a 100 dpi font or vice versus.

FWIW in konsole on Slackware 12.2 I had created a profile and named it term and then in konsole I chose this profile named term as my default profile.

FWIW here that profile is:

Code:

al@P5Q:~/.kde/share/apps/konsole/profiles$ cat term
[1]
ActiveSession=0
Args0=-bash
AutoResizeTabs=false
Cwd0[$e]=$HOME
DefaultSession=shell.desktop
DynamicTabHide=false
Encoding0=0
EncodingName=Default
Fullscreen=false
Height 864=865
History0=1000
HistoryEnabled0=true
Icon0=konsole
KeyTab0=default
MasterMode0=false
MonitorActivity0=false
MonitorSilence0=false
Pgm0=/bin/bash
Schema0=Linux.schema
SessionFont0=Terminus,17,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0
TabColor0=0,0,0
TabViewMode=0
Term0=xterm
Title0=Shell
Width 1152=1153
bellmode=0
class=konsole-mainwindow#1
defaultfont=Terminus,17,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0
history=1000
historyenabled=true
keytab=default
numSes=1
schema=Linux.schema
scrollbar=2
tabbar=1

[WindowProperties1]
ClassName=Konsole
Height 864=865
ObjectName=konsole-mainwindow#1
Width 1152=1153
al@P5Q:

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Alan.

george-lappies · 07-11-2011, 02:03 AM

Thanks Alan

I do not have that file, only thing I played around with was desktop themes. I set it back to the default but it is still not working as it should. Isn't there a setting to force the terminal globally to 80 columns by 40 lines?

george-lappies · 07-11-2011, 02:34 AM

Fixed it by deleting

Code:

/home/george/.kde/share/apps/konsole/

and

Code:

/home/george/.kde/share/config/konsolerc

Weird that changing the desktop theme would mess up konsole's size like that...

george-lappies · 08-04-2011, 04:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by george-lappies

Fixed it by deleting

Code:

/home/george/.kde/share/apps/konsole/

and

Code:

/home/george/.kde/share/config/konsolerc

Weird that changing the desktop theme would mess up konsole's size like that...

That did not really fix it. It is a known bug however https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176902

Does anyone know how to get this fixed in Slackware though?