Quoth Michele Calgaro.....
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Ta for the debian build hints. This one "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc" worked with the addition of a -b.
by the way Russell, is there any change between konsole and klt that is worth considering adding to Konsole?
AFAIR (it was some years back that I hacked it together) most of the changes were to take stuff out (shell access, multiple tabs etc) for a turnkey system. About the only addition was a writable status line on the bottom and 80/132 column flipping with some auto-resizing of the font if 132 columns at the current font won't fit on the current display.
Our legacy stuff (some 3,000+ programs so a quick rewrite isn't going to happen quickly!) was written using ncurses for a VT100 style terminals (actually Wyse 120s if anyone remembers them). It doesn't play well with the screen being resized (difficult to do on a VT100!), is fussy about fonts etc etc; hence KLT.
However, If someone wants a more kiosked konsole they're welcome to it.
The only 'gotcha' that I know of is that it's hard wired to run "/usr/local/bin/menu" when it starts but you can call it with "-e /bin/sh" or hack the code :-)