On Monday 27 April 2020 15.38:41 J Leslie Turriff wrote:

> 	In Settings -> Load View Profile you will see a "Midnight Commander"
> option, which will open Konqueror with the screen split vertically.

Only in your distribution/TDE version. This profile does not exist on Debian. 
You can create and save it however.

> 	There ought to be a command-line method for invoking this, but
> unfortunately the Konqueror Handbook doesn't tell how to do it so that it
> provides the split screen; e.g.
>
> konqueror --profile "Midnight Commander" $HOME&
>
> starts it with a single pane.  Adding additional paths to the command
> causes a "Malformed URL" message.
> 	Does anyone know how to make this work from the command line?

This is what has been discussed to far. Assuming there is a "Midnight 
Commander" profile:

 konqueror --profile "Midnight Commander"

will open this profile with whatever content has been saved in *both* panes.

konqueror --profile <whatever profile> <whatever url>

will open konqueror as single or dual pane (depending on your settings in 
the "File Management" profile I guess) and only the left pane (if two) 
populated with <url>, the other pane is empty.

In short, if you give an url konqueror ignores the profile you typed. I think 
this is what they find to be a bug.

Thierry