Anyone knows how to add a key-binding in konsole that binds a key combination to a sequence of actions?
Maybe, this could be achieved via a script?
In my case, I just want a key-binding to switch to a certain tab and send the command !!
(last used command). This is super-useful while developing. I can do the first action with standard konsole keybinding and the second action using a qdbus command. I don’t know how to put them together…
Soo… If we could figure out how to do the first one via DBus/from the command line, you could put both in a script and bind that to a (global or so) shortcut, and be set. (?)
What qdbus command line exactly are you using to post input to the shell within Konsole?
I’ll have a look later when I’m at my desktop again (and hopefully will remember).
The thing is that the qdbus command only works from inside the terminal, because it needs to know the correct konsole instance. Anyway, I moved to alacritty because the konsole support for ANSI codes is terrible…
Qdbus command:
qdbus $KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION command "!!"
Thank you!
This is what I came up with.
- a script that does what you need, and reads a kinda ‘config file’ which Konsole instance/window/session to use
- another script that saves the current session into that config file
So you’d save the scripts somewhere you like, and run the
useThisSession
one in the session you’d like to be the target.Then, you can run / bind to a shortcut / … the
runCommand
script, and it will show, raise, set Session, and run the command on the target saved earlier.useThisSession.sh
:#!/bin/bash # useThisSession echo MYCMD_SERVICE=$KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE > ~/.config/mycmdrc echo MYCMD_SESSION=${KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION#/Sessions/} >> ~/.config/mycmdrc echo MYCMD_WINDOW=${KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW#/Windows/} >> ~/.config/mycmdrc
runCommand.sh
:#!/bin/bash # runCommand . ~/.config/mycmdrc qdbus $MYCMD_SERVICE /konsole/MainWindow_$MYCMD_WINDOW showNormal qdbus $MYCMD_SERVICE /konsole/MainWindow_$MYCMD_WINDOW raise qdbus $MYCMD_SERVICE /Windows/$MYCMD_WINDOW setCurrentSession $MYCMD_SESSION qdbus $KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE /Sessions/$MYCMD_SESSION runCommand "echo cmd"
For testing purposes, I’m using
"echo cmd"
instead of'!!'
(note the different type of quotes) to not cause any… unintended… executions.Running
qdbus $MYCMD_SERVICE /konsole/MainWindow_$MYCMD_WINDOW
will show you all methods available on the Window, eg, so you can pick&choose from those if you want different behaviour from show (& un-minimize) and raise.EDIT: syntax adjusted to work in ‘regular’ bash