KDE3 konsole on KDE4
Has anyone tried this (and succeeded?). I got a new machine at work and
took the opportunity to install Squeeze, which came with KDE4.
I have some real problems with the new Konsole, and since I spend 9+
hours a day working in it, this is becoming an issue for me:
1. None of the fonts are easily readable for me. The font I used to
use - 'console8x16.pcf' - won't install here. The font installer in the
settings app doesn't see it, and konsole doesn't have a way to do this
(that I can see).
2. copy&paste seems to be erratic. I do a lot of copying output from
stuff I do console into our ticketing system. One thing that's driving
me up the wall, is for some reason, I get blank space inserted at the
end of lines. For example, I'll have the output of a select in MySQL
(not sure if this will survive mail):
+---------+---------+
| Column1 | Column2 |
+---------+---------+
| item1 | item2 |
| item3 | item4 |
| item5 | item6 |
+---------+---------+
Will come out as:
+---------+---------+
| Column1 | Column2 |
+---------+---------+
| item1 | item2
|
| item3 | item4
|
| item5 | item6
|
+---------+---------+
In case this gets fudged, what happens is blank space (as much as there
is on the console, based on the window size) gets inserted as part of
the line. It seems to treat the last pipe as the start of a word,
containing all the blank space, so with word wrap, the pipe gets pushed
to the next line, so that the "word" fits in.
So when this happens, and I need to present something in a readable
fashion, I have to go remove the blankspace from each line, which can
take a while. This is not a problem with where I'm pasting it into -
pasting it back into the console gives the same result. I'm sure I can
sed this somehow, but the number of blankspaces aren't always the same,
and it doesn't do it consistently. Above all, it introduces a few
unnecessary steps to my workflow.
So getting the KDE3 konsole back would help a lot.
Thanks
--kj
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