Guake: list of open tabs

[imranashraf]

Is it possible to get list of open tabs in guake (preferably with names)? I am thinking on the lines of scripting saving and restoring guake session across system restart.

[gsemet]

Get list and current commands yes it is possible. You can set the state at startup using a script (you can execute a script upon start, just add guake -n commands in it)

[imranashraf]

Thanks for response. Yes, i know i can execute the script at startup. My question is can I save the state of existing open tabs? So that i can restore it later? Which boils down to how can I get the list of open directory in each guake tab?

[gsemet]

it is in theory possible, but right away you'll have to wait for guake 3

[imranashraf]

looking forward to it. Thanks

[matheo]

Hi @Stibbons, any NEWS about this? I'm looking forward to keep my sessions too!

[gsemet]

hum, guake is on the bottom of my priority for the moment. I hope to be able to work again on it asap

[matheo]

@Stibbons thanks anyway, I think I saw the script required to accomplish what I wanted on the tooltip help. Thanks for this awesome tool!

[imranashraf]

@matheo can you share the script. i can also make use of it, till this feature is available in guake.

[matheo]

@imranashraf ATM I don't need a sophisticated script, just open some default tabs for some specific folders, not like continuing the session from the last point. So here's the script to create some default tabs:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 3

# rename the initial tab for home scripting
guake -r "home"

# new tab 1
guake -n "/absolute/path/to/first/folder"
guake -r "tab name 1"

# new tab 2
guake -n "/absolute/path/to/second/folder"
guake -r "tab name 2"

Be care because the path doesn't follow symlinks, the path must be absolute.
Enjoy!

[imranashraf]

@matheo thanks for sharing. yes for opening session I have a similar script with lines like this:
guake -n k -r "repos" --execute-command='cd /data/repositories'

What I dont know is how to get the list of the tabs (name of tabs + paths open in each tab). Any idea how to achieve that?

[gsemet]

You can hack the code to add a "guake -L" command for instance. if you go this path, you can (maybe) start hacking directly the code to add the "load/save tab" feature in guake directly... :)

[seam345]

I have no idea if this is useful but I also wanted to list all the tabs however didn't want to edit the source code at all so I wrote a little bash script to get all tab names. It is definitely not ideal but gets the job done.

#!/bin/bash
TAB_ARRAY=()
i="0"
while [ "$(guake -s $i 2>&1)" = "" ]
do
    TAB_ARRAY+=($(guake -l))
    i=$[$i+1]
done

echo ${TAB_ARRAY[@]}