Anno domini 2019 Tue, 22 Oct 12:38:35 -0500 Michael scripsit: Not on the easy way. But you could do some shell magic. First start konsole with enhanced dcop capabilities: $ konsole --script Then you can send command to konsole with dcop, e.g. execute "ls -l" (konsole-16979 will definitly be different whan you try - and watch the linebreak inside the ""): $ dcop konsole-16979 session-1 feedSession "ls -l " So in theory you can get that running. When you search the archive, you'll find something simillar built for a non-sessionaware exitor (xs? xe? sorry ....) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

On 10/22/2019 12:38 PM, Michael wrote: Yes, this is quite possible and you use dcop to do it. I have console with 10-tabs (5-local/5-remote) session that I restore each time I start TDE/KDE. I wrote a script (that I have assigned to a button on the QuickLaunch menu to invoke) The script is just a bash script that talks to dcop which talks to konsole. Simple really: #!/bin/bash kid=$(dcop "konsole*") ## get konsole_id (if konsole running) test -z "$kid" && { ## if not running kstart konsole --script ## start 1st session (add --iconify to start minimized) # kstart --iconify konsole --script ## start 1st session minimized) sleep 1 ## wait for start kid=$(dcop "konsole*") ## get konsole_id declare -i tries=0 while test -z "$kid" -a "$tries" -lt '10' do sleep 0.5 kid=$(dcop "konsole*") ((tries++)) done test "$tries" -eq '10' && { printf "error: kstart konsole failed.\n" exit 1 } } Then you can use ps and awk to check that the only konsole running is the one you just started (and you can distinguish between them) Switch to the 1st konsole session: sid1=$(dcop $kid konsole sessionId 1) ## get 1st session_id sid=$(dcop $kid konsole currentSession) ## get currentSession ## validate 1st session active test "$sid" != "$sid1" && { dcop $kid konsole activateSession "$sid1" ## switch to 1st session printf "warning: sid (%s) != sid1 (%s)\n" "$sid" "$sid1" >&2 sid="$sid1" } Then I simply have an array of ssh_sessions I loop over opening in a new tab (session) in konsole. Similar to: ## open rename/open remaining sessions while test "$idx" -lt "$scount" do name=${sessions[$((idx++))]} ## get session name & command cmd=${sessions[$((idx++))]} dcop $kid $sid renameSession "$name" ## set name & send cmd sleep 0.1 dcop $kid $sid sendSession "$cmd" sleep 0.1 if test "$sidx" -lt "$nsessions" ## session index -lt current number then dcop $kid konsole nextSession ## switch to nextSession & get id sid=$(dcop $kid konsole currentSession) elif test "$idx" -lt "$scount" then ((nsessions++)) sid=$(dcop $kid konsole newSession) ## create new session while test "$(dcop $kid konsole sessionCount 2>/dev/null)" -lt "$nsessions" do sleep 0.1 done fi ((sidx++)) done ## switch to first session to begin dcop $kid konsole activateSession "$sid1" ## switch to 1st session You can do something similar for any program in any tab. The key to getting familiar with dcop and finding out what capabilities are available for any KDE3 app is to just open konsole and type $ dcop It will list the applications dcop can communicate with. You can find your konsole session, (mine is konsole-3380) and then simply type $ dcop konsole-3380 qt KBookmarkManager-/home/david/.kde/share/apps/konsole/bookmarks.xml KBookmarkNotifier MainApplication-Interface konsole (default) konsole-mainwindow#1 ksycoca session-1 session-10 session-2 session-3 session-4 session-5 session-6 session-7 session-8 session-9 And of course then to see what is available by default: $ dcop konsole-3380 konsole QCStringList interfaces() QCStringList functions() void feedAllSessions(QString text) void sendAllSessions(QString text) int sessionCount() QString currentSession() QString newSession() QString newSession(QString type) QString sessionId(int position) void activateSession(QString sessionId) void nextSession() void prevSession() void moveSessionLeft() void moveSessionRight() bool fullScreen() void setFullScreen(bool on) ASYNC reparseConfiguration() and you can just work your way down adding the next level of function, etc.. to get exactly what you need, e.g.: $ dcop konsole-3380 konsole sessionCount 10 Now just weave that into a script for whatever you need to launch (been great for 5 years plus here, hadn't thought about it since -- until I saw you post) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.