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In Mac, if I have a few Terminal windows open and I restart the computer or quit Terminal, the windows that were open last are opened again with their working directories and command histories retained.

Is there a way to similarly reopen Ubuntu Terminal windows?

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  • Which desktop environment are you using? Unity (the Ubuntu default) or something else? And which terminal emulator are you using? (I don't know what the Ubuntu default is these days — gnome-terminal?) Apr 5, 2016 at 23:54

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Technically it depends upon the chosen desktop. The question has been asked here and there without any good answers. For gnome-terminal, a commonly proposed solution is adding the --save-config option, e.g.,

gnome-terminal --save-config=/home/whatever/foo

There is also the dconf-editor which might be effective, depending on what applications you use.

In either case, those would only restore a shell to a given working directory; restoring programs running within the shell seems to be glossed over generally (except for the rare case where the application also has session support).

Further reading:

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  • Option “--save-config” is no longer supported in this version of gnome-terminal (3.28.2)
    – ChrisW
    Aug 16, 2019 at 12:03
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I too was annoyed after switching from mac to windows, couldnt get to restore terminals (WSL) and would restart with fresh window. What worked for me was that I installed ubuntu via VMWare, and VMWare by default suspends upon restart of windows, hence whenever I reboot and reopen the VMWare app, I find all applications, including terminal tabs in same (restored) state as it was before reboot. Hope this helps others.

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