How to Remember Multiple Tabs' Session in Terminal? (Alike Ff Session Manager)

creating multiple tabs in the xterm session of cygwin

If you're already open to starting up X11, check out mrxvt. It does multiple tabs, and last I checked, it built smoothly under Cygwin.

There's also Terminator, which is a java terminal emulator... ISTR it doesn't require X11.

Customize linux terminal PS1 variable in a function before starting a session

You are correct; your local host does not display another prompt after you add TITLE to PS1 until after ssh exits. Instead, just output TITLE immediately.

function fn() {
  set-title "$1"
  ssh $1         
}
function set-title() {
  printf '\e]2;%s\a' "$1"
}

Note that setting PS1 locally before running ssh has no effect on your prompt on the remote host anyway.

How to effectively work with multiple files in Vim

Why not use tabs (introduced in Vim 7)?
You can switch between tabs with :tabn and :tabp,
With :tabe <filepath> you can add a new tab; and with a regular :q or :wq you close a tab.
If you map :tabn and :tabp to your F7/F8 keys you can easily switch between files.

If there are not that many files or you don't have Vim 7 you can also split your screen in multiple files: :sp <filepath>. Then you can switch between splitscreens with Ctrl+W and then an arrow key in the direction you want to move (or instead of arrow keys, w for next and W for previous splitscreen)

Get the actual geometry of a gnome-terminal

I can propose you a workaround for this problem which is working for me. First of all you obtain the geometry of the window with the following command:

xwininfo -id $(xprop -root | awk '/_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW\(WINDOW\)/{print $NF}')

You will get something like this:

  Absolute upper-left X:  783
  Absolute upper-left Y:  344
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 722
  Height: 434
  Depth: 32
  Visual: 0x76
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x4400005 (not installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +783+344  -175+344  -175-272  +783-272
  -geometry 80x24+775+315

Neither the information in the -geometry 80x24+775+315 section nor the information in Absolute upper-left X: 783 and Absolute upper-left Y: 344 allows you to launch a gnome-terminal in the same position than the current on. You have to mix both data to get the appropriate information.

gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24+783+315

Note: I have check this under Ubuntu 11.10 | Unity

Elegant and efficient way to start GUI programs from terminal without spamming it (Bash or any Posix shell)

As others have pointed in the comments, I think the real problem is a way to distinguish between gui vs. non-gui apps on the commandline. As such, the cleanest way I could think of is to put this part of your script:

  #!/bin/bash

  if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
    ($@ &) &>/dev/null
  else
    echo "missing argument"
  fi

into a file called gui, then chmod +x it and put it in your ~/bin/ (make sure ~/bin is in your $PATH). Now you can launch gui apps with:

`gui google-chrome`

on the prompt.

Alternatively, you can do the above, then make use of bind:

bind 'RETURN: "\e[1~gui \e[4~\n"'

This will allow you to just do:

google-chrome

on the prompt and it would automatically append gui before google-chrome

Or, you can bind the above action to F12 instead of RETURN with

bind '"\e[24~": "\e[1~gui \e[4~\n"'

To separate what you want launched with gui vs. non-gui.

More discussion on binding here and here.

These alternatives offer you a way out of endless aliases; a mix of:

• Putting gui in your ~/bin/, and
• Binding use of gui to F12 as shown above

seems the most ideal (albeit hacky) solution.

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Update - @Enno Weichert's Resultant Solution:

Rounding this solution out ...

This would take care of aliases (in a somewhat whacky way though) and different escape encodings (in a more pragmatic rather than exhaustive way).

Put this in $(HOME)/bin/quiet

#!/bin/bash -i

if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
  # Expand if $1 is an alias
  if [ $(alias -p | awk -F "[ =]" '{print $2}' | grep -x $1) > 0 ] ; then
    set -- $(alias $1 | awk -F "['']" '{print $2}') "${@:2}"
  fi
  ($@ &) &>/dev/null
else
  echo "missing argument"
fi

And this in $(HOME)/.inputrc

#
# Bind prepend `quiet ` to [ALT][RETURN]
#
# The condition is of limited use actually but serves to seperate
# TTY instances from Gnome Terminal instances for me.
# There might very well be other VT emulators that ID as `xterm`
# but use totally different escape codes!
#
$if $term=xterm
  "\e\C-j": "\eOHquiet \eOF\n"
$else
  "\e\C-m": "\e[1~quiet \e[4~\n"
$endif

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