Is there a way to open 4 terminal windows every time I login?

Question

I want to open four terminal windows into the first pane (upper left-hand side) when ubuntu boots. I have two terminal profiles: default and Mail. I want two of the windows Mail windows, and the other two to use the default profile. It would also be nice if I could get the terminals to ssh to where I manually send them every time I boot up.

Is there a way to do this? If so, what is it in English? I am not a computer programmer or an expert user and i can't even tell whether I'm using unity, so please gear your answer accordingly. Thank you!

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

You could add this to your startup applications. Press the Ubuntu button(top-left), type and click Startup Applications, there, click on Add and type whatever you want in the title and put this is in the command section:

gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=default && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=default && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=Mail && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=Mail

startup

As for your automatic SSH logging in needs please take a look at this question here - Can I create a SSH script and How can I setup password-less SSH

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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Is there a way to do this? If so, what is it in English? I am not a computer programmer or an expert user and i can't even tell whether I'm using unity, so please gear your answer accordingly

The best way to make program start at login, regardless of desktop environment (unity,gnome,whatever), is to place a file like program-name.desktop into a folder .config/autostart/ (this folder is in your home folder, hidden because of the initial dot.) . Whatever is in that file, will run when you login.

Bellow is the version of a script I wrote for another question, but adapted for this specific one. You would need to open text editor ( named gedit ), and copy the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=four-terminals
Comment=A script to open 4 terminal windows.
Exec=/home/yourusername/bin/four-terminals.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;

Notice the line Exec=, where yourusername should be substituted with your actual user name. This is the path to the file that will actually do the work. You you will need to make a new folder in your home folder called bin and then create a file called four-terminals.sh in there. Copy the script bellow into that file. Now , open terminal and type sudo chmod +x /home/yourusername/four-terminals.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Serg Kolo
# Date: 2/18/2015
# Description: A simple script to create two windows on right side
# of the screen with specific size. 

sleep 1
# This part opens 4 windows with specific profiles and titles 
gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=Mail -t MAIL-ONE 
gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=Mail -t MAIL-TWO
gnome-terminal -t DEFAULT-ONE
gnome-terminal -t DEFAULT-TWO
if [  $? == 0  ]
then
        wmctrl -r MAIL-ONE -e 0,1300,300,250,250
        sleep 0.5
        wmctrl -r MAIL-TWO -e 0,1300,0,250,250
        sleep 0.5
        wmctrl -r DEFAULT-ONE -e 0,1000,300,250,250
        sleep 0.5
        wmctrl -r DEFAULT-TWO -e 0,1000,0,250,250
fi

Perhaps it's simply not clear yet: if command; then ... is the same as command; if [ $? = 0 ]; then .... — muru, Apr 08 '15 at 16:53
I know , but I just find it less confusing for me. Just a personal quirk — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Apr 08 '15 at 17:38
Are you sure? You wouldn't have made that mistake with sleep in the previous script. Also, your answers should help others as well, so please stick to simpler code if you can. — muru, Apr 08 '15 at 17:39
Ok , I will try. Thank you for always helping users improve , muru ! You're awesome ! — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Apr 08 '15 at 17:53

Is there a way to open 4 terminal windows every time I login?

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