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I like to be able to send a command when I launch the Konsole in RedHat 5. Eg. 

$ konsole -e "sleep 30"

What is happening is the "sleep 30" is becoming the title and I am getting an error saying that 

Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that this is due to an incorrect configuration of the PTY devices. Konsole needs to have read/write access to the PTY devices."

How do I do this?

Carmen
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Leave out the quotes. Assuming Konsole's -e option works like xterm's and others', the first argument following the -e is the command name to be executed while the remaining arguments are passed to the command. So you were trying to run a program called sleep 30 rather than sleep.

If that's the issue, the error message looks worth a bug report. It should be complaining about failure to execute the command.

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