persistent xterm sessions

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Anyone know of a tool like 'screen' or an xterm equivalent that has the 
ability to persistently save sessions? If you need to restart X or 
reboot, most apps these days can preserve their sessions (like Firefox, 
or an editor saving buffers), but you're stuck starting over from 
scratch with your xterm sessions. 

When I start up X, I'd like to be able to resume work in a bunch of 
xterm sessions, each preserving a title, current working directory, 
command history, and scrollback buffer. Ideally it'd be nice to be able 
to "reattach" to running programs in those xterms, much as you can 
reattach to a screen (providing you haven't rebooted the machine). 

(It'd be nice to see some of the hibernate technology added to the Linux 
kernel to support laptops made granular such that individual processes 
or process groups could be selectively hibernated. If that existed, 
'screen' could be updated to let you hibernate a screen session, which 
could then be resumed after a reboot.) 

I played around with Gnome's ability to save sessions, and found it to 
be unreliable, as far as preserving xterm sessions. 

Aside from preserving the scrollback buffer, I think most of this is 
doable given enough scripting effort. It just wouldn't be all that 
dynamic - for each xterm you wanted to be persistent, you'd have to add 
some code to your startup script. (Which is something I've already done, 
but I haven't tried preserving session-specific command histories.) 

  -Tom 

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