Simplified UI

[nerodark]

is it possible in a near future, via a configurable option, to have a mode where it only loads 1 shell (like in shellinabox) without all the toolbars and buttons?

[liftoff]

You can already do this! Just set your "js_init" setting in 10server.conf like this:

"js_init": "{showToolbar: false, showTitle: false}",

That will completely disable Gate One's toolbar and hide the side title bar but the keyboard shortcuts to open new terminals will still work. To prevent that (enforce only one terminal at a time) you can add this to your 50terminal.conf:

"max_terms": 1,

Then if a user tries a keystroke like Ctrl-Alt-N they'll get a message saying they're only allowed to open one terminal.

NOTE: You can have per-user "max_terms" settings if you want too.

[nerodark]

is it possible to auto-open a default app with an existing config (ex. the default app named "SSH") ?

[liftoff]

Sure, there's two (easy) ways:

1. Just set the end of your Gate One server's URL to "?terminal_cmd=your_command" and it will automatically open when the page is loaded. Full example:

https://your-gateone-server/?terminal_cmd=nethack

That would run the command defined in your 50terminal.conf as 'nethack'. Pretty straightforward.

2. Auto-open a terminal with a specific command with some very simple JavaScript:

GateOne.Events.on("go:js_loaded", function() {
    if (GateOne.Terminal.terminals.length) { return; }
    GateOne.Terminal.newTerminal(null, {'command': 'nethack'});
});

Put that in a file named 'run_command.js' (or whatever-you-want.js) and drop it in /path/to/gateone/static/extra/. Once there you can reload Gate One and it should automatically be minified, sent to your browser (and permanently cached there until you make a change to the file), and called when the page is loaded. The "go:js_loaded" event may fire multiple times (if things go slow) hence the check for existing terminals.

For reference, there's also lots of really sophisticated ways you could do the same thing but why bother with that stuff when I made a mechanism (the 'extra' directory) just for simple stuff like that 😄