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Since the update to Mageia 3 the KDE Konsole shows the input cursor on a wrong position.
It always show 1 space (blank) character in front of the cursor.

''#' stands for the cursor in the following example.

If I enter

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD#

Then it shows:

DDDDDDDDDDDD #

If I go back with the <--- cursor key:

DDDDD #DDDDDDD

The key entry point is in front of the space and not of the cursor symbol.
How can I get rid of this space?

have you checked if a brand new user has the same problem?

It's usually a theme problem. You may have to wipe your dot folders and start with a default desktop.

Which of the '.*' folders must I remove?

Those 2?

drwxr-xr-x 3 franz franz 4096 nov 26 2009 .kde/
drwx------ 6 franz franz 4096 aoû 15 2012 .kde4/

Will KDE still work without those folders?

.kde is not used anymore, just look at the creation date -> seems from an older KDE3 installation.
KDE will still work (it will recreate the default settings) but ALL KDE settings will be lost. Better way than to remove to do it is either move away or rename ~/.kde4/ folder
and then logout/login again or just create a new user and try with that one, if that still doesn't work, to see if the problem persists.

doktor5000 wrote:. Better way than to remove to do it is either move away or rename ~/.kde4/ folder
and then logout/login again or just create a new user and try with that one

Thanks. I have removed the '.kde4' folder. After the restart the Konsole works fine.