Feature request: Save and restore terminal state

[fanghuaqi]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I didn't find a way to save or restore the terminator window state, it is useful, when I have opened a lot of tabs and in each tab windows splited, but when suddenly my sessions(such as VNC) hangs, I have to reopen all the tabs and spilt windows again.

Describe the solution you'd like

Maybe the window state can be saved every 1 hour or configurable time, and user can also save the window state as layout or something.

Describe alternatives you've considered

In https://tabby.sh/about/features, it support :

Persistent history and tabs
Tabby remembers your open tabs, and when you accidentally close them, restores the complete terminal state.

In tmux, user can attach to previous sessions or save or restore sessions.

[mattrose]

I think the best way of accomplishing this is to create a "current" layout that gets updated every time the layout changes.

Alternately, we could put a switch in the preferences that would auto save the "default" layout.

I will play.

[fanghuaqi]

Hi @mattrose , I tried that layout saving method, it can restore the layout, but all the directory where shell executed all reset to $HOME, you still need to cd back to it, and the command histories are all disappeared.

Thanks
Huaqi

[gitbuddy99]

I'm testing Terminator for the first time, and would also love if it had autosave on closing for its layout, current directory of each terminal, and separate scrollback buffer (history) for each terminal (also autosaved)
Unless this is already possible with settings or plugins I haven't found?
Thanks

[dotkt]

nice feature. i also need it

[ghost]

It would be nice to have the opened tabs saved and the state preserved upon exit, so when i open terminator again, all the tabs that i previously opened in the last session are there and the paths are saved. Just like Dolphin file manager.

[markdoerr]

Hi terminator developers and @fanghuaqi,
I added a plugin that adds a "SaveUserSessionLayout" ContextMenu item (s. PR #878).
When this menu item is selected, the current state of the session with all layouts is saved as "SaveUserSessionLayout".
One can then use the terminator -s option to select this layout.

I hope, it solves the issue.

[fanghuaqi]

Hi terminator developers and @fanghuaqi, I added a plugin that adds a "SaveUserSessionLayout" ContextMenu item (s. PR #878). When this menu item is selected, the current state of the session with all layouts is saved as "SaveUserSessionLayout". One can then use the terminator -s option to select this layout.

I hope, it solves the issue.

Woooow... cool, thanks for the plugin. @markdoerr

[markdoerr]

You're welcome, @fanghuaqi :)
please test it and provide some feedback (on my computer, it works nicely as desired ;).

To test it, just clone the repo with the new branch , and follow the instructions in the install.md:

python3 setup.py build
(sudo) python3 setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=install-files.tx

good luck !