Bug 38803 - terminal emulation through the serial port
Summary: terminal emulation through the serial port
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Mandrake RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2002-02-28 21:48 UTC by chris
Modified: 2012-08-04 22:36 UTC (History)
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Description chris 2002-02-28 21:36:30 UTC
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Package:           konsole
Version:           1.1 Beta2 (using KDE 2.9.0 2 (3.0 beta2))
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Mandrake Linux 8.1 i586 - Vitamin
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.8-26mdksmp
OS/Compiler notes: 

Would be very usefull (at my place of work) to be able to direct Konsole at a serial port (i.e. like hyperterm in Windows) to allow remote terminal communications.

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Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2002-02-28 21:55:58 UTC
On Thursday 28 February 2002 22:36 chris@oofus.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Package: konsole
> Version: 1.1 Beta2 (using KDE 2.9.0 2 (3.0 beta2))
> Severity: wishlist
> Installed from:    Mandrake Linux 8.1 i586 - Vitamin
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1
> 2.96-0.62mdk) OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.8-26mdksmp
> OS/Compiler notes:
>
> Would be very usefull (at my place of work) to be able to direct Konsole =
at
> a serial port (i.e. like hyperterm in Windows) to allow remote terminal
> communications.

Hi!

Use screen for that. You can start "screen /dev/ttyS0" inside konsole. I do=
n't
think konsole should support that natively.

Greetings Stephan

--=20
life is too short to make mistakes
Comment 2 chris 2002-12-01 17:03:05 UTC
Screen is not very 'user friendly' for the people at work I would envisage using this. Something with a nice simple GUI for config and usage is what they need ! 
Comment 3 chris 2004-05-20 18:57:37 UTC
I still think it's a good idea. Komport started to do exactly what I wanted but that seems to have been abandoned now.
Comment 4 Michael Jahn 2004-07-24 12:11:44 UTC
At least related, if not dupe: bug 27089.
Comment 5 Robert Knight 2008-05-23 21:48:04 UTC
> Screen is not very 'user friendly' for the people at work I would envisage using this.

I am not objecting to the request itself but if you need something 'user friendly' then surely a terminal is not really appropriate in the first place?
Comment 6 David Bailey 2009-12-29 19:05:12 UTC
Why, when most of the parts are there, would you want to force the user to run a console-command to get a serial terminal? It seems pretty easy to simply add an option in the Edit Profile General tab that is a command or device option buttons. If you select the device option, the command field becomes a device field, and instead of specifying a command such as a shell, you specify a serial device such as /dev/ttyS0.
Comment 7 Robert Knight 2009-12-30 03:01:13 UTC
> It seems pretty easy to simply add an option in the
> Edit Profile General tab that is a command or device option buttons.

Adding an extra control to a dialog is indeed easy.  The risk with any new feature is the incremental cost (in increased UI, code and testing complexity) of lots of little features added over time.
Comment 8 David Bailey 2009-12-30 21:01:01 UTC
One of the basic tenets of Linux or UNIX is that files and devices can be treated the same. One of the basic tenets of terminal emulators is that they can connect to remote devices. Why would you not want to include this functionality in the GUI? The complexity to implement is minimal and the functionality makes sense.
Comment 9 Kurt Hindenburg 2012-08-04 22:36:46 UTC
Reopen when someone can provide a patch