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Idea #21661: Remember Yakuake Sessions

Written by cslotty the 3 Oct 09 at 10:33. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Yakuake is a very nice terminal program - customizable and with some nice features.

You can open a number of sessions, give names to them, move them around and all that. Meanwhile you can even split terminal windows horizontally and vertically.

But it is the result of a lot of "work" to open a number of terminal windows, give names to them and all that.

It would be great if one could save the current session configuration, i.e.: What terminal screens are opened, what are their names and positions on screen, what directories are open, what's in the terminal buffer and so on.

Just like Firefox does it with tabs, but with all the functions Yakuake delivers.

I don't know if this is more of a software feature that should be addressed to Yakuake developers directly of if this is an issue regarding (Gnome-) session handling - so I post this here in brainstorm.

Please tell me if this is not the right place for my idea!

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Solution #1: Make an option "save session"
Written by cslotty the 3 Oct 09 at 10:33.
In Yakuake preferences there could be an option "save current yakuake session".

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cslotty wrote on the 19 Oct 09 at 14:06
As I have found out meanwhile, just as an addition to this post:

- Bugs and feature wishes can be posted here: http://bugs.kde.org/
- some session management workaround can be scripted using D-Bus- (KDE 4) and DCOP-Interfaces (KDE 3)
- yakuake window transparency seems to be possible using a compositing manager (gnome doesn't seem to support transparency in a yakuake window)


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