Question

My ubuntu setup, has various shell-scripts that help me get my work done. Of which, many of the important ones, are persistent. I have a single shell, that does the “loading” of these various persistent shells.

However i would like it to be able to monitor all the various sub-shell. And to be able to recreate it, after it itself has closed / any sub-shell closes.

Making the whole thing fully automated.

Currently, each shell would have its own unique title : hence even a simple list of all opened gnome terminal titles would work… >.< problem is, getting that done.

Answer 1

Use:

$ wmctrl -l

to list all the windows managed by the window manager, or

$ wmctrl -l -x | grep gnome-terminal\\.Gnome-terminal

to list all the gnome-terminals.

Check man wmctrl for more info.