[kde-linux] Saving Sessions in Konsole in KDE 4.X - SUCCESS

[Hal Vaughan]

I know this is a hot topic and I've seen, in archives, people who have 
said this is a make/break issue for them and why they're not going to 
upgrade until it's fixed.

In short, the problem is in KDE 3.5 you can save a Konsole session to 
include all the tabs you had open previously.  If I recall, it even 
saved the same directory.  You can't do that at all in 4.x.

Actually you can, sort of.  I've got it working with a work-around.  I 
would use a large number of tabs and have them labelled and colored 
according to which machine they were usually logged into so I had some 
tabs that were always an open ssh to one computer and some to another.  
I can duplicate the tabs now and with some work, one could go farther 
than that and make sure they're on the right directory and possibly (I 
think) run the right startup script for that tab.

What I did was make use of the --new-tab option.  When you run "konsole 
--new-tab" it adds a tab to the current instance of Konsole.  It's not 
perfect.  If you run my script 2x, you get double the tabs in Konsole, 
not 2 windows, but it works for me.

I basically wrote up a script like this:

konsole
konsole --new-tab --profile=Profile1
konsole --new-tab --profile=Profile2
exit

This script would open a Konsole window with one tab, then open a 2nd 
tab, change its settings to those in Profile1, then do the same with 
another tab and Profile2.  You cand do as many as you like.  Then I 
exit, which closes the first tab and leaves just 2 tabs, one using 
Profile1 and one using Profile2.

To do this, you have to create all the different profiles you want, but 
that also lets you specify other info about each tab.  I haven't had 
time to look through this carefully, but I would think that if done 
right, you can specify the directory for each profile and other points 
as well.

It's not perfect, but it works for now.  I created a script in my own 
bin directory and added a menu item for it and that does what I need it 
to do.  The default command for a profile in Konsole is /bin/bash.  If 
you add "--rcfile xxxxx" with a new rc file specified, then you could 
use custom rc files to set the directory for each tab as well.

I also tried to make the default command in one profile "/bin/bash 'ssh 
-X -lhal -t othercomputer bash' and it worked just fine -- it 
automatically opened the profile and ran ssh and connected to the other 
computer.

I hope this helps some people who, like me, depended on that feature.


Hal
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