I want to ssh automatically to remote server by opening Konsole after login, runnning ssh command and using the shell from then on.

Google for solutions leads to lots of advice on running a command in a shell at boot and keeping it open with, for example, 'konsole --noclose -e <command>'. This does not help because the konsole has no command prompt.

I want to to do this without using screen, which I don't get along with. I get lost in a maze and bad things happen when I type something thinking I'm local when I'm remote or vice versa. I've tried to use screen for days and have had to restore from backup several times because of errors made.

I would like to do this because I have three servers in three shells and when I restart the saved session comes up with three shells containing three broken pipes.

I use KDE/Arch and Kubuntu on different machines. I would like to be able to do this on either machine.

My first approach to this problem would be with screen. Why, exactly, does it make you confused? I don't understand the difficulty, but maybe I'm missing something. Your explanation of some maze and local vs remote confusion makes no sense to me.

It's just me, I can't remember if I've got a screen that I can't see at the moment, which terminal window opened on which desktop or which shell I'm in when I resume after a few hours.

The only time I would use screen is for a large inter-server file transfer to ease resumption after a loss of connectivity.

I access three remote servers in up to six different shells, alongside shells for different tasks on three local machines, with 14 desktops between them. Everything has worked smoothly for years but adding screen to the mix makes it too confusing for me.

It would be convenient if those shells could ssh to their server and be fully ready for use after a session restore. At the moment, all I have to do is type a command in each shell. Using screen would make my day more difficult not easier. If konsole can open a new shell, execute a command and stay open, it can't be that difficult to have that shell that stays open be usable for more commands rather than just visible?

If I understand you correctly you want to open a number of shells that connects to one server each?
I do this with gnome-terminal, this command opens 3 tabs in a terminal and connects to 3 different servers: (The commands "c0" "c1" are bash scripts that contains the ssh connection string.)
Using ssh keys I don't even need to type in password, I have 3 shells ready on one server each with that single command.

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