Updated in November 2022 to work with newer Python and Yakuake version!

Requires: yakuake, qdbus (libqt4-dbus), pwdx (procps), ps (procps)

Tested on: Fedora 36 with Python 3.10.8 and Yakuake 22.08.1

Does not support old versions of yakuake that use DCOP instead of DBUS.

ysess is a script that gathers as much info as possible from a running yakuake instance and saves it out in INI format. It can then take this same INI file as input and (destructively! *) reconstruct the yakuake session.

* As part of the reconstruction process, ysess destroys all current tabs in yakuake before restoring from the INI file.

Currently, ysess will save the following information:

• tab order
• tab title
• active tab
• per-tab working directory
• per-tab active command

Per-tab active command is supported to allow resuming long-running commands, like top.

$ ysess --help Usage: ysess [options]

Save and load yakuake sessions. Settings are exported in INI format. Default action is to print the current setup to stdout in INI format.

Options:

-h, --help	show this help message and exit
-i FILE, --in-file=FILE
	File to read from, or "-" for stdin
-o FILE, --out-file=FILE
	File to write to, or "-" for stdout
--force-overwrite
	Do not prompt for confirmation if out-file exists

To use in your crontab -- and I have no clue why this works -- prepend the command with DISPLAY=:0.0:

* * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 ysess -o ~/yakuake.ini --force-overwrite

I hope to add some features:

• Save per-tab shell environment (so, for example, virtualenvs can be restored)
• Allow a whitelist or blacklist for which active commands to save
• Maybe, eventually, DCOP support for users stick with older yakuake versions