#1 2019-09-13 16:29:42

jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

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Konsole Windows startup from autostart not working in Helium release

When I login, I use autostart to start up my konsole terminal windows, with a line that looks as follows:

(sleep 5s && wmctrl -s 1 && konsole --workdir /home/jja && wmctrl -s 1 && konsole --new-tab && wmctrl -s 1 && konsole --new-tab) &

This will bring up a konsole terminal window with 3 tabs.

In the Helium release, the behavior has changed. The same line in autostart will bring up a konsole window with one tab. If I kill the window with 'cntrl-D', the window exist and a 2nd window with one tab pops up. If I then kill that window, a third konsole window pops up.

So, instead of 1 window with 3 tabs, I am getting 3 windows with 1 tab.

This is not a show stopper for me, but I would like to fix this if I can. I am experimenting, but have not found a solution yet.

Suggestions are welcome!

Jim A.

damo

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Re: Konsole Windows startup from autostart not working in Helium release

How to launch a KDE konsole with multiple tabs running various progs?

See --tabs-from-file

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jjanderson5

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Re: Konsole Windows startup from autostart not working in Helium release

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that and it did not work in Helium.

ohnonot

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Re: Konsole Windows startup from autostart not working in Helium release

The wmctrl bit of the command just switches to desktop #1, so the problem must be with konsole - either its command line options have changed, or maybe you should add a delay between opening the new tabs.
But it seems inelegant in any case, and if console can open a list of tabs with one command, that's how you should do it.

full disclosure:
I don't use konsole and I'm not about to install it with its gazillion dependencies.