[Konsole-devel] [Bug 111503] New: Automatically execute commands to prevent connection loss when remotely connected

[Jesús Jiménez]

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111503         
           Summary: Automatically execute commands to prevent connection
                    loss when remotely connected
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: jesjimenez gmail com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
OS:                Linux

I'm often working with multiple konsole tabs, each one with a ssh session to another machine. One thing that I find very annoying is that, if any of this connections is idle for some time (1 min or so), the connection is lost. It would be nice if konsole could be configured to automatically issue a predefined, useless command (a simple 'ls', 'true', or even a carriage return), when it detects inactivity, just to maintain the connection up. 

This has been done for ages in many FTP clients, and it works very well. Since not every session will understand the same commands, I think a good way to implement this would be adding a "Execute custom command when idle..." option to the right-click popup menu of each tab.

Thanks for your attention and congratulations for such a good little app!