SUMMARY When using '–tabs-from-file' in Konsole, not only the expected tabs configured in the supplied file are opened but an additional empty tab with a regular prompt as well. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create a simple text file suitable for `–tabs-from-file` containing pre-configured tabs 2. Start konsole pointing `–tabs-from-file` to that text file OBSERVED RESULT For n configured tabs, Konsole always opens n+1 tabs, i.e. one additional empty tab not configured in the file. EXPECTED RESULT Only the configured tabs (as defined in the file supplied to `–tabs-from-file`) should open. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3
Confirmed Arch Linux, Plasma 6.0.5, konsole 24.05.0
As a workaround, use command konsole --tabs-from-file `path-to-tabs-file' -e 'bash -c exit'
(In reply to Vence from comment #2) > As a workaround, use command > > konsole --tabs-from-file `path-to-tabs-file' -e 'bash -c exit' Thank you for confirming and supplying a workaround! In my Kubuntu 22.04, however, appending the exit command still opens the extra tab and also leaves it open, albeit without the prompt being active anymore. So the 'exit' does succeed in ending the shell session but (at least on my Konsole 21.12.3) the tab does not automatically close, so I am still stuck at n+1 tabs.
This is a known issue from the start - it wasn't a big deal so wasn't fixed.
*** Bug 450018 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marking confirmed since its been experienced by multiple users
Hopefully this isn't too off-topic since it doesn't solve the problem or provide a much better workaround than what's already been said, but maybe the extra context will inspire someone...and as a user who'd like this fixed (but also agree it's not a big deal) that's something. :) I poked at it a bit and it's not that Konsole is just opening an extra tab with your shell, it's that it's opening the "initial" tab from its profile configuration, then adding the tabs from the tabs file. For example, if you were to: 1. ...create a new Konsole profile called `tabsfromfile`, and 2. ...in "General > Command" of that profile, change the shell to `/usr/bin/vim`, and 3. ...launch 'konsole --profile tabsfromfile --tabs-from-file ~/.local/share/konsole/mytabs.konsoletabs` ...then the "extra tab" would be a Vim instance rather than a shell. So I guess one workaround that might work well if you're not bothered too much by the fact that you're not doing everything in the tabs file: 1. Make a new Konsole profile that's set up to run one of your desired tabs (configure the command accordingly, etc.) 2. Set up your tabs file to create all the _other_ tabs 3. Launch something like `konsole --profile first-tab --tabs-from-file ~/.local/share/konsole/other-tabs.konsoletabs` In fact, if you do this a lot you could create a shell script/function called `konsole-tabs` with something like this (and maybe some other logic wrapped around it); then after creating each appropriate profile and tabs file, just run `konsole-tabs mytabs` and such. ```sh konsole --profile "${1}-firsttab" --tabs-from-file "${HOME}/.local/share/konsole/${1}-othertabs.konsoletabs" ``` If you _definitely do_ want everything in the tabs file (maybe it's in version control?), you can still create a "tabsfromfile" profile, with the command set to "/bin/true"; Konsole will still open that tab but it'll blip in and out immediately (unless you're using `--noclose`, heh). The other alternative -- as others have said -- is just something like: ```sh konsole --tabs-from-file ~/.local/share/konsole/mytabs.konsoletabs -e /bin/true ``` ...and replace the initial tab's command that way (don't forget that `-e` always has to come last on the command line).