Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

[Oceanwatcher]

I have a server at home and my only interface to it is through telnet.

I have learned that I can use

ssh -l <username> <IP Address>

in a terminal window to access it. But to avoid having to open a terminal window and then write this to access it, I would like to have a shortcut for it in my favourites menu. Possible?

[flarson]

Re: Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

Create a konsole profile that run ssh. In console select Settings->Manage Profiles. Then New Profile.
Give a name like home, the command "ssh home" or "ssh -Y home" if you want Xforwarding. Click apply and OK. Now under file you will find a home entry that opens a new tab with ssh to your home. You can set hotkeys for it, and it works very well with keychain.

You can then create a menu that calls "konsole --profile home" if you want.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

Did the konsole profile. It is available under File. If I choose it there, it opens a new tab and connects to the server. So far all is well.

I made a new menuitem by right-clicking on the K icon and select Menu editor. There I added an item as you explained and put

konsole --profile server

as command.

The problem is that it does not open with this profile. It opens with the default profile and I have to choose the other profile from the File menu.

It is of course a lot easier any way, but would be cool to get it completely right.

[flarson]

Re: Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

It works for me. I am guessing that your command is wrong in some small way, maybe case sensitivity? Try the command from the command line and see if it works.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

Yup, not working from the commandline either.

Alt-F2
konsole --profile server

I get the default profile.

Did you try to connect to a server somewhere instead of your own pc?

[flarson]

Re: Possible to make a telnet connection a favourite in Kmenu?

I use it to connect to many server in various places that I manage. Well, actually I usually use mrxvt which I have setup the same way, but I have konsole setup for that also.

In ~/.kde/share/apps/konsole there should be a .profile file for each profile you setup. The profile on the command line must be exactly the filename minus .profile.

You can run konsole --list-profiles to get a list. If you do not find a discrepancy in any of this maybe just delete the profile and recreate it. This is not even new. konsole has worked like this for years.