Ubuntu – Script for opening tabs in Guake terminal

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I am using this script with gnome terminal:

#!/bin/sh
gnome-terminal --tab --title="1" --command="ssh 1" \
--tab --title="2" --command="ssh 2" \
--tab --title="3" --command="ssh 3" \
--tab --title="4" --command="ssh 4"
exit 0

How can I do the same things by script but on a Guake terminal?

Best Answer

Did you read guake --help?

Usage: guake.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t, --toggle-visibility
                        ?ndert die Sichtbarkeit des Terminal-Fensters.
  -p, --preferences     Zeigt die Einstellungen von Guake
  -a, --about           Zeigt Guake's Programminformationen
  -n NEW_TAB, --new-tab=NEW_TAB
                        Tab hinzuf?gen
  -s SELECT_TAB, --select-tab=SELECT_TAB
                        Tab ausw?hlen
  -g, --selected-tab    Return the selectd tab index.
  -e COMMAND, --execute-command=COMMAND
                        Eigenen Befehl im ausgew?hlten Tab ausf?hren
  -r RENAME_TAB, --rename-tab=RENAME_TAB
                        Gew?hlten Tab umbenennen
  -q, --quit            Sagt Guake das es verschwinden soll :o(

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – How to set Guake as preferred terminal emulator for “Run in Terminal”

You could probably enjoy running gconf-editor — or maybe even dconf-editor since 12.04, — and navigate directly to the org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal key:

dconf screenshot

The exec-arg parameter must be changed to Guake's -e. For the lazy:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec 'guake --new-tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg '-e'

Ubuntu – Open terminal with multiple tabs and execute application which uniquely modifies PS1 variable for each tab

As is the case with most programming, solving the problem was extremely hard. I had to study a bunch about Bash variables, and how to use export and source (or the POSIX dot operator, .), and how bash loads, and what interactive -i bash mode was, etc etc.

I found man bash and man test to also be useful. Here's how to do what I want to do, which is:

Write a script to open 3 tabs.
cd into a different folder in each tab (ie: run a unique command).
get each tab to have a unique title by modifying its local PS1 variable
Ensure each tab stays open after the script is run

1st, add this to the bottom of your `~/.bashrc` file:

# Function to allow a user to arbitrarily set the terminal title to anything
# Example: `set-title this is title 1`
set-title() {
    # Set the PS1 title escape sequence; see "Customizing the terminal window title" here: 
    # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bash/Prompt_customization#Customizing_the_terminal_window_title
    TITLE="\[\e]2;$@\a\]" 
    PS1=${PS1_BAK}${TITLE}
}

# Back up original PS1 Prompt 1 string when ~/.bashrc is first sourced upon bash opening
if [[ -z "$PS1_BAK" ]]; then # If length of this str is zero (see `man test`)
    PS1_BAK=$PS1 
fi

# Set the title to a user-specified value if and only if TITLE_DEFAULT has been previously set and
# exported by the user. This can be accomplished as follows:
#   export TITLE_DEFAULT="my title"
#   . ~/.bashrc
# Note that sourcing the ~/.bashrc file is done automatically by bash each time you open a new bash 
# terminal, so long as it is an interactive (use `bash -i` if calling bash directly) type terminal
if [[ -n "$TITLE_DEFAULT" ]]; then # If length of this is NONzero (see `man test`)
    set-title "$TITLE_DEFAULT"
fi

2nd, create this script to open 3 unique tabs with 3 unique cd commands and 3 unique titles:

open_tabs.sh:

gnome-terminal --tab -- bash -ic "export TITLE_DEFAULT='title 1'; cd ..; exec bash;"
gnome-terminal --tab -- bash -ic "export TITLE_DEFAULT='title 2'; cd ../..; exec bash;"
gnome-terminal --tab -- bash -ic "export TITLE_DEFAULT='title 3'; cd ../../..; exec bash;"

Now open up a terminal and run the open_tabs.sh script:

./open_tabs.sh

Voila! It's magical! These 3 new tabs are now shown at the top of my terminal, and each has done the proper cd command I set, and each has the proper title I set!

This will all be placed into my dotfiles project: https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_dotfiles.

Full and final solution: see here: Open Terminal with multiple tabs and execute application