customising terminal startup

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:40:50 -0400
Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:51:49PM -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:
> > >>
> > >> when I open a terminal on recent Ubuntus (eg 7 and 8)
> > >> I always begin with the commands:
> > >> PS1="$ "
> > >> cd /media/SOMEDRIVE/somedirectory
> 
> Here's the cat's meow: do all this in multiple tabs and save the
> configuration of each tab. The old multi-gnome terminal could do this.
> Does anyone know of a terminal that can do that? Preferbaly non libvte
> based. 
> 
> So I'd have 8 tabs, each with potentially a different working
> directory, a different start up command, a different bash-history.
> Then I'd save that profile.
> 
> Sorry to highjack this thread but you were closing in on something
> that's bothered me for a while. 
> 

Does terminator do it? It is multiple terminal windows, that you split
up.

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