How to save a session in Yakuake

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I use the Yakuake drop-down terminal and would love if it could save my session of tabs somehow. When I have 6-7 tabs open, all named and everything, it is a giant pita having to re-create that on every reboot.

Any ideas?

There is a [feature request for that](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149522). Lets vote it up! =) — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Oct 22 '13 at 11:52

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 19 '20 at 02:26

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Seems like you're in luck; there's a project, yakuake-sessions, meant to provide just this:

ysess is a script that gathers as much info as possible from a running yakuake instance and saves it out in INI format. It can then take this same INI file as input and (destructively! *) reconstruct the yakuake session.

* As part of the reconstruction process, ysess destroys all current tabs in yakuake before restoring from the INI file.

Currently, ysess will save the following information:

tab order

tab title

active tab

per-tab working directory

per-tab active command

edited Oct 19 '20 at 02:26

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Works just the way I imagined it :) Cheers! – mart1n May 14 '12 at 15:38
Does it work for Ubuntu 12.04? – MrYoshiji Aug 28 '14 at 15:28
does this program still work? – kjones Dec 20 '17 at 05:41
Update - it does still work, at least on my Kubuntu 16.10 install. Very helpful little program, thanks for sharing – kjones Dec 20 '17 at 05:59
Not working on my end, Ubuntu 20.04. After executing `yess -i `, it just crashes... – М.Б. Nov 24 '20 at 11:20
The original project no longer works but thankfully someone ported it to Python3. This worked for me apart from a minor bug I fixed and made a PR for. https://github.com/CDanU/yakuake-sessions – Richrd Jan 05 '21 at 15:46

How to save a session in Yakuake

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