On 2020-04-27 09:08:29 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 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
>
	Yeah; sorry, I should have waited to reply before reading only the first few
posts, but it looked like the "Midnight Commander" profile was being
overlooked.
	And thanks for pointing out  that saving its settings keeps the split screen
setup.

Leslie