Running Terminal as user and with custom commands

[rairay91]

I am using Garuda kde dragonized eddition, which means arch+kde. Konsole is the default terminal. I want to run konsole with kando-menu which I can do, but when I launch terminal from kando-menu it runs from "/usr/lib/kando🔒" directory with this lock icon. So my questions are :-

1. I want to run konsole from home directory
2. And with some custom commands, something like "sudo pacman -Syu".
   How can I do that?

[Schneegans]

Hi there! Looking at the docs, it seems you may be looking for the --workdir and -e flags. Maybe also --noclose. Not tested, but maybe something along the lines of:

konsole --workdir ~ --noclose -e "sudo pacman -Syu"

I am not sure if that works with the sudo this way. Maybe you need to start a shell first? Something like this:

konsole --workdir ~ --noclose -e "bash -c sudo pacman -Syu"

[rairay91]

OK, right command is this excluding those braces, if you want your terminal to be killed automatically after your work is done you want to use this command -> ( konsole --workdir ~ -e bash -c "sudo pacman -Syu" )
Sometime this command should be used if for some reason you want to keep terminal active even after the process/job is done -> ( konsole --workdir ~ --noclose -e bash -c "sudo pacman -Syu" )

Here is how kando-menu is helping me playing windows games with just one click-

I am using these commands to run my windows free/drm free games using umu-launcher with proton compatibility layer (replacing "username" with your username like if your username is kando than typing kndo instead "username" ->

1 -- ( konsole --workdir ~ -e bash -c "GAMEID=spaceengine WINEPREFIX=/home/"username"/.umuPrefixes/umu-spaceengine umu-run /home/"username"/Games/SpaceEngine0.9.8.0e/system/SpaceEngine.exe" )

2 -- ( konsole --workdir ~ -e bash -c "GAMEID=spaceengine WINEPREFIX=/home/"username"/.umuPrefixes/umu-spaceengine PROTONPATH=GE-Proton umu-run /home/"username"/Games/SpaceEngine0.9.8.0e/system/SpaceEngine.exe" )

3 -- ( konsole --workdir ~ -e bash -c "GAMEID=spaceengine WINEPREFIX=/home/"username"/.umuPrefixes/umu-spaceengine PROTONPATH=GE-Proton9-1 umu-run /home/"username"/Games/SpaceEngine0.9.8.0e/system/SpaceEngine.exe" )

And this command is to create proton/wine prefix for games -> ( konsole --workdir ~ -e bash -c "GAMEID=spaceengine WINEPREFIX=/home/"username"/.umuPrefixes/umu-spaceengine umu-run winecfg" )