F19 konsole --title weirdness

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 11 17:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a strange effect with KDE's konsole terminal emulator.
> I configured multiple keyboard shortcuts to start konsole with ssh to
> different machines, like this:
> 
>   Alt-A:   konsole --title machineA -e slogin machineA
>   Alt-B:   konsole --title machineB -e slogin machineB
>   Alt-C:   konsole --title machineC -e slogin machineC
> 
> Starting the consoles works fine, but the title only matches for the
> first invocation of a konsole.  Any further konsole started parallel to
> the already running konsole's gets a default title:
> 
>   1. Alt-A:  konsole title "machineA"
>   2. Alt-A:  konsole title "Shell - Konsole"
>   3. Alt-B:  konsole title "Konsole"
>   4. Alt-A:  konsole title "Shell - Konsole <2>"
>   5. Alt-B:  konsole title "Konsole <2>"
> 
> When looking into the process list, it turns out that only a single
> konsole process is running, maintaining all konsoles.
> 
> However, when starting konsole from the command line, the --title is
> honored!  Looking into the process list, it turns out that, when
> starting from the command line, there's one konsole process per
> invocation, rather than a single konsole for all shortcut invocations,
> even if already another konsole started via shortcut is running.
> 
> How can I get the same, sane command line behaviour when using the
> keyboard shortcuts?

Never mind.  Right after sending this mail I found the solution.
The --nofork option does it right, for some reason.


Corinna