Desktop Environment Features Compared: terminal and tabs
There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however many tabs I have. All that is nice. However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability. How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)? Thanks.
On 4/6/21 1:17 PM, kf wrote:
There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however many tabs I have. All that is nice.
However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability.
How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)?
Thanks.
I currently use konsole in KDE3 and I have it start with 11 terminals open, 5-local set to different directories and 6-remote all started to establish ssh connection. (all from a short script making a few dcop calls) I have never found a more capable or well thought out terminal application than konsole (even in Plamsma it is good, but I hate the remapping of short-cut keys they did) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 2021-04-08 16:46:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 4/6/21 1:17 PM, kf wrote: |> There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one |> which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, |> have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. |> i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, |> and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however |> many tabs I have. All that is nice. |> |> However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move |> the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I |> resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), |> then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer |> if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and |> present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after |> reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability. |> |> How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other |> desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)? |> |> Thanks. | |I currently use konsole in KDE3 and I have it start with 11 terminals | open, 5-local set to different directories and 6-remote all started to | establish ssh connection. (all from a short script making a few dcop | calls) | |I have never found a more capable or well thought out terminal application |than konsole (even in Plamsma it is good, but I hate the remapping of |short-cut keys they did)
Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to split the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one can, of course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64
* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]:
On 2021-04-08 16:46:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 4/6/21 1:17 PM, kf wrote: |> There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one |> which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, |> have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. |> i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, |> and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however |> many tabs I have. All that is nice. |> |> However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move |> the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I |> resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), |> then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer |> if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and |> present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after |> reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability. |> |> How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other |> desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)? |> |> Thanks. | |I currently use konsole in KDE3 and I have it start with 11 terminals | open, 5-local set to different directories and 6-remote all started to | establish ssh connection. (all from a short script making a few dcop | calls) | |I have never found a more capable or well thought out terminal application |than konsole (even in Plamsma it is good, but I hate the remapping of |short-cut keys they did)
Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to split the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one can, of course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that).
which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more than one time. so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode
On 2021-04-09 19:51:29 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
|* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]: |> |> Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to split |> the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one can, of |> course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). | |which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more than |one time. | |so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :)
Which KDE would that be? Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64
* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:59]:
On 2021-04-09 19:51:29 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
|* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]: |> |> Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to split |> the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one can, of |> course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). | |which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more than |one time. | |so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :)
Which KDE would that be?
afaik, most of them in the last several years. but the current definitely. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode
On 2021-04-09 20:00:31 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
|* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:59]: |> On 2021-04-09 19:51:29 Patrick Shanahan wrote: |> > |* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]: |> > |> Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to |> > |> split the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one |> > |> can, of course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). |> > | |> > |which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more |> > | than one time. |> > | |> > |so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :) |> |> Which KDE would that be? | |afaik, most of them in the last several years. but the current |definitely.
Ah. Apparently not in (too old?) KDE 3, I guess. Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64
On 06/04/2021 20.17, kf wrote:
There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however many tabs I have. All that is nice.
However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability.
How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)?
XFCE with xfce terminal: it remembers the placement, and what tabs were open in what directory each of them, and what tittle each of them, if you defined a tittle. What doesn't work is a lost feature in openSUSE (there is a bugzilla): the tittle doesn't follow the prompt. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 (Legolas))
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 18:39:28 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
XFCE with xfce terminal: it remembers the placement, and what tabs were open in what directory each of them, and what tittle each of them, if you defined a tittle.
What doesn't work is a lost feature in openSUSE (there is a bugzilla): the tittle doesn't follow the prompt.
A tittle sounds like something Kenneth Williams would have said :)
On 09/04/2021 18.39, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 06/04/2021 20.17, kf wrote:
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XFCE with xfce terminal: it remembers the placement, and what tabs were open in what directory each of them, and what tittle each of them, if you defined a tittle.
What doesn't work is a lost feature in openSUSE (there is a bugzilla): the tittle doesn't follow the prompt.
Correction: the title works in my travel laptop, but not in my desktop machine. I will have to investigate why. [...] It also works in my desktop today. Maybe there has been finally been some update related to that bugzilla that finally corrected the issue and I didn't notice :-D -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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