diff --git a/src/ViewManager.h b/src/ViewManager.h
--- a/src/ViewManager.h
+++ b/src/ViewManager.h
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@
     /** DBus slot that returns the number of sessions in the current view. */
     Q_SCRIPTABLE int sessionCount();
 
+    /**
+     * DBus slot that returns the unique ids of the sessions in the
+     * current view.  The returned list is not sorted.
+     * QList<int> is not printable by qdbus so we use QStringList
+     */
+    Q_SCRIPTABLE QStringList sessionList();
+
     /** DBus slot that returns the current (active) session window */
     Q_SCRIPTABLE int currentSession();
 
diff --git a/src/ViewManager.cpp b/src/ViewManager.cpp
--- a/src/ViewManager.cpp
+++ b/src/ViewManager.cpp
@@ -1083,6 +1083,18 @@
     return this->_sessionMap.size();
 }
 
+QStringList ViewManager::sessionList()
+{
+    QStringList ids;
+
+    QHash<TerminalDisplay *, Session *>::const_iterator i;
+    for (i = _sessionMap.constBegin(); i != _sessionMap.constEnd(); ++i) {
+        ids.append(QString::number(i.value()->sessionId()));
+    }
+
+    return ids;
+}
+
 int ViewManager::currentSession()
 {
     QHash<TerminalDisplay *, Session *>::iterator i;