How can I make Yakuake launch a TUI system monitor automatically?

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I tend to use Yakuake to launch a program like btop or htop so I have a flyout system monitor whenever I want. Yakuake is already set up to autostart, but I want it to open a tab with btop every time I start Yakuake. How can I do this?

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You can create a new profile, set it as default for Yakuake, and change the profile’s start command to /usr/bin/htop for example.

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Great idea @rodrigopedra !

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Hm, this solution seems less than ideal. I can’t find a way to make a new session with anything other than btop.
Is there some way that I can make Yakuake start up with one session that runs btop and then a second session that is just an empty shell?

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You can make a script that checks if btop is running, if it is not, launch it, if it is, launch /usr/bin/bash instead.

Something like this:

#!/bin/bash
if pidof -q "/usr/bin/btop";
then
    /usr/bin/bash
else
    /usr/bin/btop
fi;

Save this script somewhere, I put mine in my ~/bin, and don’t forget to make it executable:

chmod u+x ~/bin/yakuake-shell.sh

Then, on your yakuake’s profile, make this script the start command.

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Thank you this helped me so much!

I had to change it a bit to make it work for me:

#!/bin/bash

if pidof -q btop >/dev/null; then
    /usr/bin/bash
else
    /snap/bin/btop
fi
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