I have the following requirements for a program running on a server where clients login to : - A special keytab , for keybindings used in that program - ibm850 encoding - fixed size konsole and fontsize and colorscheme - menu and tabbar disabled - automatic telnet to the server when client starts konsole I have created the special keytab file and called it cash.keytab The rest of the settings I configured in a profile called Cash which configures konsole for use with that server application. Now when users have to acces the program they click on an icon "Cash" which starts the following : konsole --profile Cash -e "telnet <ip-adres-server>" This doesn't work , the profile gets loaded nicely , but no telnet session to the server gets started. A tried with a default session type allso , that contained an Exec=telnet <server-adres> line , but no go. With profiles there's apparently no way of automatically starting a program. There is no other way to get encoding ibm850 by default in this session then by using the --profile option, so how do I start an application while using the --profile option , or how do I start konsole with encoding ibm850 without using the --profile option, that's the question. Where does konsole get its default encoding from? TIA Wim bakker ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.