I've prepared couple of profiles and all are located in ~/.local/share/konsole mc.profile root mc.profile shell.profile On begin default is built profile: "Profile 1", so in configuration file ("~/.config/konsolerc") I have on begin following content: [Desktop Entry] DefaultProfile=Profile 1.profile [Favorite Profiles] Favorites=root mc.profile,shell.profile,mc.profile Using "Manage profiles" option I changed default profile to "shell". I restarted konsole and I got profile same as I very first time run konsole. When I check configuration file here I can't see any changes. OK. I change again and default profile let be "mc". Again after restart of konsole I get very first default profile, and configuration file is the same. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Changed default profile is not saved in configuration file. Expected Results: Newly selected default profile should be saved in configuration file. This is refers to version: 15.11.80 (unavailable in this form). KFrameworks 5.17.0. Plasma 5.5.1. Qt-5.5.1 Packages are coming from Mageia 6 Cauldron.
Works for me with Konsole from git master. Please re-open if you can reproduce this issue with Konsole 18.08.x or git master.