Re: persistent xterm sessions

["David Rosenstrauch" <user=20@nabble.blu.org>]

 Tom Metro wrote: 
> David Rosenstrauch wrote: 
>> Konsole also has the nice feature of being able to save the set of 
>> currently open tabs to a "session profile" file, and then reload that 
>> profile later (by typing "konsole --profile <profile-name>").  The 
>> profile appears to save numerous settings of each open console, 
>> including title, color schema, tab icon, working directory, choice of 
>> shell command, etc., as well as overall app settings such as window size. 
> 
> This sounds quite promising, though I'm not sure it is really all that 
> different from the existing capabilities provided by GNOME's Terminal, 
> which does everything you list, except provide a field to set the 
> working directory. (I'm not sure if that is transparently preserved, or 
> if you'd have to use its "custom command" feature to set the working 
> directory.) 
> 
> I did fairly limited testing with preserving GNOME Terminal sessions via 
> GNOME built-in session saving facility. As I recall, after a restart, 
> only a portion of the xterms restarted, and on a second restart, none of 
> them did. In addition, I don't think any of the internal shell state, 
> like the working directory, was preserved. Using a custom profile for 
> each would probably address that.