issue was unintended consequence of my customization.
i had: System Settings->Windows Behavior->Windows Behavior->Advanced tab checked the Windows Tabbing's Automatically group similar windows. i have un-checked that box now. Thank you, F- On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, FHDATA wrote:
hello all, this is a KDE 4.14.x question. a showstopper I need to find a remedy/fix or find myself another desktop. It seems that in KDE everything is single-instance! in particular I am in need of being able to launch multiple instances of Konsole or heck even a whole bunch of xterms .... All I get is one window with tabs.... can not work only with one window with multiple tabs. I want multiple windows/instances. Am I missing any hidden Preferences or Setting somewhere? Any reasonable work-around? Thank you, F-