Konsole behaves strangely when a new instance is launched (via Krunner, command, or shortcut). It launches the new window working in the same working directory with previous windows. As I can see it does not launch another konsole instance, but says the existing process to launch a new window. I thought it shares the same code part as tab creation (didn't dig into code). So I changed the "Initial directory" to my home directory and also unchecked "Start in the same directory as current tab" in current profile settings dialog. Looks like it doesn't work for new windows and it launches the new window while PWD set where the previously open tab's PWD is. The strange thing is that the new tabs are opened working in my home directory while new windows follow the previous tab.
Sounds like it may be related to bug#371863 which has been fixed already: https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/commit/?id=4ec9b565800b9e9bdbf45dbb5983530fb95791e7 Could you maybe try that patch (or latest git master)? It will be in 16.12.0 though.
Will take a look at it.
(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #1) > Sounds like it may be related to bug#371863 which has been fixed already: > https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/commit/ > ?id=4ec9b565800b9e9bdbf45dbb5983530fb95791e7 > > Could you maybe try that patch (or latest git master)? > It will be in 16.12.0 though. Looks like it solved the issue. Thanks