Konsole dies slow

[askrieger]

I've using Konsole frequently under both KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3 on my Mandrake 8.2 system. I've just got to try out all the cool things I'm learning from this site.:)

At the end of a session, when I exit Konsole, I get what is to me, a cryptic error message. The message box that pops up is titled Sorry- KDE Panel. The message text, "KDE Init could not launch 'konsole-noxft' ". This happens when I type exit, click on the x in the upper right corner, or use the File menu.

At first, I ignored the message because Konsole was certainly launching, I just got through using it. Then I noticed in KDE 2.2.2 that the konsole bar in the kicker wasn't going away, immediately. It was sitting there blinking for about a minute after I exited the program.

What's going on and should I worry about it?

[mdwatts]

This is what I found with a little Google for Linux search.

If you right click on the console icon on the kicker panel, you will see that
it has "konsole-noxft" with no space between the konsole and the dash mark.
Add the space so it looks like "konsole -noxft" and the problem will not
reoccur.

[askrieger]

I tried your suggestion. It worked like a charm.

I'm more puzzled than ever, though. Apparently, even though the the message doesn't appear until after the konsole session has ended, (I know that because I searched for it after konsole started.), konsole starts and runs normally. If whichever program is interpreting my mouse click was looking for the non-existent konsole-noxft, why did it start konsole?

Gee, and I didn't even know that konsole HAD options!