GNOME Terminal > load-config > does not work properly after upgrade to 16.04

Question

That command below worked fine on Ubuntu 14.04. After upgrade to 16.04 it does not work anymore. It opens a terminal window with 4 tabs.

open-terminals.sh

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --load-config=terminal-config.cfg &>/dev/null &

terminal-config.cfg

#Written by GNOME Terminal 3.6.2

[GNOME Terminal Configuration]
Version=1
CompatVersion=1
Windows=Window0;

[Window0]
MenubarVisible=true
Role=gnome-terminal-window-6355-887453268-1466588933
ActiveTerminal=Terminal0xed4f70
Geometry=135x24+437+495
Terminals=Terminal0xe04970;Terminal0xc1f520;Terminal0xe4f060

[Terminal0xe04970]
ProfileID=Default
Title=am.example.com
WorkingDirectory=/home/.../servers/apache-tomcat-am/bin
Zoom=1
Width=135
Height=24

[Terminal0xc1f520]
ProfileID=Default
Title=web.example.com
WorkingDirectory=/home/.../servers/apache-tomcat-web/bin
Zoom=1
Width=135
Height=24

[Terminal0xe4f060]
ProfileID=Default
Title=middleware.example.com
WorkingDirectory=/home/.../servers/payara-middleware/bin
Zoom=1
Width=135
Height=24

[Terminal0xed4f70]
ProfileID=Default
Title=api.example.com
WorkingDirectory=/home/.../servers/glassfish-api/bin
Zoom=1
Width=135
Height=24

At first I got a "Error creating terminal: "Default" is not a valid UUID" error. I fixed it so that I put a real uuid to ProfileIDs.

Next error what I got was "Error creating terminal: No profile with UUID "e4661004-d5fd-4d17-9a9d-8e419b6b8330" exists". I fixed it so that I changed the value of Terminals in [Window0] to the ProfileIDs.

Next problem: Title and WorkingDirectory properties are not applied and i just realized that the "rename tab" menu is disappeared from the menu.

GNOME Terminal

3.18.3

A terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop

Using VTE version 0.42.5 +GNUTLS

Could you please help me to fix this issue?

update

gnome-terminal --save-config=~/temp/xyz.cfg says that Option "--save-config" is no longer supported in this version of gnome-terminal.

What is that? What is is the alternative way to do the same with the new version of gnome-terminal? I have not found any useful about this topic on the internet :(

Answer 1

Same issue.

On my computer the command line parameter --tab-with-profile accepted value "Default", while --load_config did not (check tag <entry name="visible_name"> in the file ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml or use GUI profile settings).

So I have transformed important values from the config file to command line parameters. You can use following code for your setup:

gnome-terminal --geometry="135x24+437+495" \
            --tab-with-profile="Default" --working-directory="/home/.../servers/apache-tomcat-am/bin" \
            --tab-with-profile="Default" --working-directory="/home/.../servers/apache-tomcat-web/bin" \
            --tab-with-profile="Default" --working-directory="/home/.../servers/payara-middleware/bin" \
            --tab-with-profile="Default" --working-directory="/home/.../servers/glassfish-api/bin"

Unfortunately I haven't found how to set tab titles this way.

But there are sweets in the end. You can use --command for each tab and run e.g. mc. This was impossible with config file.

Answer 2

I've got same issue. Partly fix is to comment all lines where

ProfileID=Default

...it provides load all your tabs from configuration saved before. But tab name issue should be fixed (I've checked --help & --help-all - have not found correct property for tab title)

Other way to have hot fix is to replace ProfileID name value with id value. Id value can be checked in Edit->Profile parameters->General->profile ID.