title: How to start and position multiple applications on Ubuntu/Linux?
body: <p>At my new job I am doing rails development and I am on Ubuntu (my choice). I want to start up emacs, and 2 or 3 terminals, position them, and possibly cd to directories.</p>
  
  <p>I have been looking all over but can't seem to find any application which will do this.</p>
  
  <p>I am asking this here, because if there isn't an app somebody knows about, it will be a programming question, of how can I accomplish this in a KISS way (little ruby script or something).</p>
  
  <p>So: Do you of any applications that will do what I want, or if that fails, do you know of a simple way to programmatically do this myself (I don't care what language/framework).</p>