Re: persistent xterm sessions

["Bill Ricker-3" <user=46@nabble.blu.org>]

 Screen can do this, provided you run it on a real host, not on the 
laptop/X-server.  On certain systems, my .profile runs 'screen -r' so 
all I need to is launch a Xterm with ssh to there, and I've got it all 
the existing sessions to all hosts. That would even work locally over 
just an X restart. For me, this means I reconnect to the VPN, and I've 
got my sessions. 

If you're rebooting, you'll have to rely on each individual hosts' 
shells' history for command history per $UESRID. 





On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 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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