Bug 370300

Summary:	Behaviour of `--separate` and `--new-tab`
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Alex Bikadorov <alex.bikadorov>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	a.samirh78, clearmartin, justin.zobel, simonandric5, wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	17.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Alex Bikadorov 2016-10-08 14:03:54 UTC

I need some clarifications about these arguments:
What does `--separate` actually do?
It does not fork the process, it always blocks the parent. And it always starts a new instance/window.
Is this a bug or does it something else?

And `--new-tab` opens a new window in some cases:
1. Start an instance with "$ konsole"
2. Try to open a new tab in this instance: "$ konsole --new-tab": a new window is opened

If the initial instance is started with "konsole --new-tab" it works as expected. Another bug?


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2017-12-21 19:18:28 UTC

From `konsole --help`:
"--separate, --nofork       Run in a separate process"
and that's exactly what it does.

--new-tab will open a new window if konsole isn't set to run all windows in a single process (Settings -> Configure Konsole -> General).

Comment 2 Alex Bikadorov 2017-12-21 20:11:39 UTC

>From `konsole --help`:
>"--separate, --nofork       Run in a separate process"
>and that's exactly what it does.

Yes, i have read the docs. If i start it with
$konsole
it opens a new process/window and blocks the calling process. If I use
$konsole --separate
it opens a new process/window and blocks the calling process. So, what is the difference?

>--new-tab will open a new window if konsole isn't set to run all windows in a single process (Settings -> >Configure Konsole -> General).

Cannot confirm. It only works if the current Konsole was started with "--new-tab". Otherwise the flag is ignored and a new window is opened. The setting "Run all Konsole windows in a single process" does not change anything.

My problem is this test case: A Konsole window was started with "konsole". Now all three commands
"konsole"
"konsole --separate"
"konsole --new-tab"
show the very same behaviour.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Bauer 2017-12-21 22:06:57 UTC

See bug#373440

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2020-11-03 02:14:38 UTC

Alex can you please confirm if this is the same as bug 373440?

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