I have written a script called ynew, that uses qdbus to tell yakuake to open a new tab, call it something and run something inside that tab.

I usually use it like that:

ynew build_server

Which will open a terminal with an ssh connection to that server. The terminal will also close when the ssh is terminated.

It is useful for anything that has an interactive prompt and we might want to have inside a separate shell.



Here's the script:

#!/bin/sh

title=$1
script=~/.ynew/$1

if ! test -e $script
then
        echo command does not exist
        read -p "add a new command? [Y/n]" a

        if test -z "$a"
        then
                a="y"
        fi

        if [ "$a" = "y" ] || [ "$a" = "Y" ]
        then
                mkdir ~/.ynew
                echo "#!/bin/sh" > $script
                chmod u+x $script
                editor $script
        fi
        exit 0
fi

qdbus org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/sessions org.kde.yakuake.addSession

for i in `qdbus org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/sessions org.kde.yakuake.sessionIdList | sed 's/,/ /g'`
do
        lastsession=$i
done

qdbus org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/tabs org.kde.yakuake.setTabTitle $lastsession $title

qdbus org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/sessions org.kde.yakuake.runCommandInTerminal $lastsession $script



I think it could be included within the yakuake installation.

Reproducible: Always