Bug 212462

Summary: geometry command line option is ignored
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: furue
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: fff
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description furue 2009-10-31 03:21:44 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I think that the ability to set the size of the konsole window from the command line as

   $ konsole --geomtry 80x24 # in terms of lines and columns
  or   --geometry 300x200 # in terms of pixels

is necessary.  Consider, for example, a situation where you use konsole in a .desktop file as

   Exec=/usr/bin/konsole -e cli_command --geometry 80x24

It is annoying that the size of the window is affected by the "current" setting.

The initial messge of Bug 152385 mentions this issue, but the subsequent responses ignored it and focused on other ones.  I want the --geometry issue to be separate.

In passing, it is strange that konsole does not issue an error message when either --geometry or -geometry is specified.
Comment 1 furue 2009-10-31 03:35:34 UTC 
I mentioned "Bug 152385", but I meant Bug 196397 .  I'm sorry for the mistake.

By the way, that was the only relevant (as far as I could tell from the titles of the bugs) report I found in the "Check for Duplicate Bug Reports" page of the KDE Bug Report Wizard.
Comment 2 Semo 2009-11-04 22:31:54 UTC 
Same for me. Cmdline option --geometry for konsole is silently ignored and size of just created window is determined I don't know how as well as placement on the desktop.
Comment 3 Jonathan Marten 2010-01-25 18:53:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 147094 ***