How do I customize xfce-terminal startup?

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 451 Location: Saitama, JP

After running WindowMaker for 10 years or so, I'm trying out xfce. I'd like to have a terminal window start up automatically each time I log in, with two tabs: one with a local shell, and one running ssh connecting to a remote machine.

Anyone know how to do this?

TIA.

defenderBG · l33t Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 817

there is the xfce4-autostart-editor which manages the autostart, yet the rest depends on the terminal that you want to use.
try making a bash script, which makes all the needed operation, chmod +x the script and put it in the autostart.

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 451 Location: Saitama, JP

defender: Thanks. I was thinking of doing something like this, but I can't figure out how to get Terminal to start up with two tabs, and to run ssh in one of the tabs.

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

I haven't used it in ages so don't have any cfg I can paste but iirc when I used gnome and gnome-term I opened 2 tabs in the term (one for user, one for logged in root), enabled 'auto save session on exit', exited the session, logged back in and turned auto save session off (everything else I wanted in the session I put in a script to autostart so my "base" was just the 2-tab terminal).

I'm not 100% this is how I did it but am 100% that when starting gnome my gnome-term had the ordinary user tab open plus the root tab prompting for pw. hth