yakctl

A simple command line tool to control your Yakuake terminal instance by describing sessions (tabs and properties) to ease workflows.

Yakuake is a "drop-down terminal emulator based on Konsole technologies" and is part of the KDE software suite.

This tool makes use of the dbus-interface Yakuake offers and is written in Golang.

Command

NAME:
   yakctl - Control the yakuake terminal and your terminal sessions

USAGE:
   yakctl [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   1.0.0

COMMANDS:
   clear, c    Clear all sessions and terminals
   profile, p  Manage defined profiles, default: list available profiles
   exec, e     Execute a command in all or specific terminals
   status, s   List status (=sessions, terminals) of the current yakuake instance
   help, h     Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --config value  configuration file (default: "/home/worker/.yakctl.yml")
   --verbose       verbose log output (default: false)
   --help, -h      show help (default: false)
   --version, -v   print the version (default: false)

COPYRIGHT:
   yakctl  2020  https://github.com/emschu/yakctl

   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
   This is free software, and you are welcome
   to redistribute it under the conditions of the
   GPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt).

Setup

1. Install this project by installing it via go install github.com/emschu/yakctl@latest
2. Create a ~/.yakctl.yml configuration file and read the configuration section below.
3. Start using yakctl

Requirements

• Yakuake of the KDE project needs to be installed
• qdbus command, check with which qdbus

Configuration

You can find this example in .yakctl.yml of this repository. It contains all supported configuration options and is expected to be at ~/.yakctl.yml. Alternatively you can provide a path to a configuration file using the command line option --config <path>.

You should note:

• the clear flag means that all your yakuake tabs will be closed, except the protected ones. To also remove the latter, use force: true
• commands listed in commands are executed before terminalX

---
profiles:
  - name: default
    clear: true
    force: true
    tabs:
      - name: raspi1_ssh
        monitorActivity: true
        monitorSilence: true
        disableInput: true
        protected: true
        commands:
          - ssh pi@10.10.10.11
          - echo 'hello world says the pi'
      - name: raspi2_ssh
        commands:
          - ssh pi@10.10.10.12
        protected: true
      - name: left-right split terminal
        split: lr
        commands:
          - cd /var/www/html
        terminal1:
          - top
        terminal2:
          - htop
      - name: top-bottom split terminal
        split: tb
        disableInput: true
        commands:
          - "echo 'hello'"
          - echo 'hello2'
          - echo 'hello3'
      - name: quad_tab
        split: quad
        monitorActivity: true
        monitorSilence: true
        disableInput: true
        commands:
          - "echo 'all'"
        terminal1:
          - echo "terminal1"
        terminal3:
          - echo "terminal3"
        terminal4:
          - echo "terminal4"
      - name: go-shell
        commands:
          - cd ~/go/src
  - name: other_workspace
    tabs:
      - name: raspi3_ssh
        commands:
          - "ssh pi@10.10.10.154"
        protected: true

Examples

## List your defined profiles
$ yakctl profile
OR
$ yakctl p

## Open first profile
$ yakctl profile open 1
OR
$ yakctl p o 1

## Execute "echo 'hello world'" in ALL open terminals of yakuake
$ yakctl exec echo 'hello world' 

License

GPL v3 - for details see the full license text.

More information

• Yakuake KDE GitLab repository