Anyway to save session in Gnome ?

I'm using Suse SLED 10 SP2. I upgraded to SP2 recently. Earlier, whenever I was logging out, it would ask me if I wanted to save my session. Now after SP2 , it does not do that.
So, how do I save my session ?

I like to have around 15-20 bash shells open, so its a pain having to reopen them each time.

 

System >> Preferences >> Sessions

Go to Session Options tab

 

What are you doing with 15-20 bash shells open at the same time? Two is usually enough for me. And I use those pretty heavily. You know about pushd and popd, right?

 

Sounds like you need to use Screen. You run all your terminals inside of one terminal, in which you run Screen. You can 'detach' the Screen session and log out. Later, you can log in (even remotely, using SSH) and reattach the Screen session, and everything will be there waiting for you. If you run an interactive program like irssi or rtorrent in Screen and detach the session, it will continue to run in the background. As long as your computer doesn't turn off, those shells will remain available.

 

I've heard of pushd/popd, never used them.
Here is what I do with my bash shells
1. top
2. ./firefox (so I can see error messages and kill by CTRL-C periodically if RAM gets too high)
3 ./opera (to kill if it hangs)
4. ./azureus (yeah I could just do an "&")
5. Logged in as root (to unmount directories or do root stuff)
6. SSH'd into remote work computer
7-13. In different directories that are subdirectories of a paper I'm writing, so I can access each directory quickly.
14. tmp directory
15./thunderbird
16./kaffeine

In addition, I like to keep around 5 more shells open just so I always have shell immediately available.

srunni, thanks for the "screen" program, seems nifty, but I dont see how it would solve my problem. The "Gnome Terminal" already opens up bash shell in tabs.

 

As I said, if you detach your Screen session and log out, when you log back in, all you have to do is reattach Screen and all the terminals will still be there. You don't have to reopen them every time, which is what you said you wanted to avoid in the initial post.

 

Aah yes, sorry. I forgot to mention I log out only to shut down or reboot.

 

Random question: CRT+C kills a program?

 

Oh, OK. Yeah, Screen only works as long as the computer is on. You might be able to find a way to startup GNOME terminals on login somehow. I know that in KDE you can place scripts to run on login in ~/.kde/Autostart, but I don't know how it works in GNOME. The GNOME developers probably thought it would have been too confusing for their users and decided not to include support for running commands on login

Yeah, or

Code:

killall [process name]

or

Code:

kill [pid]

if you didn't start the process from a terminal.

 

I've been using xkill all this time, thanks for the tip.

 

There was no option to save a session, except "automatically save session".
I hope this works.