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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?
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:
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.
