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Mauricio Zamora
Mauricio Zamora

Reputation: 11

Customization multiple tabs in terminal

Issue: Create a script that opens a terminal window with multiple tabs, each tab requires a different title to identify its purpose, in addition each tab should display a specific commmand (will not execute the command, the user will need to hit Enter to execute the command).

Example: The user needs to execute 3 commands: ifconfig, route -n and top, the user executes the script and it opens the terminal with 3 tabs, the first tab shows in the title Network and the prompt shows root$ ifconfig, the second tab shows in the title Routing and the prompt is like root$ route -n, the third tab shows the title Performance and the prompt shows root$ top. The commands are not running when the script is executed, the user needs to go into each tab and manually hit "Enter" to execute each command.

I am using the following script to open the terminal with multiple tabs, but am stuck trying to get the other features working, any assistance will be highly appreciated:

#bin/bash

tab="--tab"
cmd="bash -c 'pwd';bash"

foo=""

for i in 1 2 3; do

      foo+=($tab -e "$cmd")         
done

gnome-terminal "${foo[@]}"

exit 0

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1007

Answers (1)

galusben
galusben

Reputation: 6372

You can save the state of your terminal using:

gnome-terminal --save-config=FILE

And call the load with:

gnome-terminal --load-config=FILE

Where FILE is the filename you would like to save.

So you can open 3 tabs and give them names etc, then save the config and in your script you can load it.

On the saved file you can edit properties like: 

WorkingDirectory=
Title=

As for displaying a command and not running it, I don't have a solution.

You can check this: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-make-your-own-gnome-terminals/

Upvotes: 1

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