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Tabbed PuTTy client

43 points| cgbystrom | 14 years ago |sourceforge.net | reply

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[+] singlow|14 years ago|reply
I do want a tabbed putty client, but this one doesn't support the Windows 7 Aero-Snap features that the standard putty client recently added support for, so I will hold off.
[+] ak217|14 years ago|reply
I was confused about those, by the way. What exactly does the new Aero support in putty do? I haven't noticed anything different in how it behaves.
[+] elliottcarlson|14 years ago|reply
I use PenguiNet over PuTTy - nice clean interface and excellent support - http://www.siliconcircus.com/
[+] falcolas|14 years ago|reply
I tried out PenguiNet on a previous recommendation from HN, and was sadly disappointed. They do not support setting the background and foreground colors separately from the explicit ASCII colors.

Due to various conditions with my eyesight, I can see the text on the terminal much more clearly when it's dark text on a light background. You can do this in PenguiNet, but then you loose the ability to specifically create black text in your output, since it's now the color of the background.

Putty's support for this feature is pretty much seamless, in contrast. I believe that this is on Silicon Cirus' wish list, but until that's supported it's mostly a non-starter for me.

[+] jsherer|14 years ago|reply
Been looking for a tabbed putty client for years. Though, I'm a bit saddened by the UI. While I do think it looks "good", I feel that the Chrome tab UI seems to be incredibly overused nowadays.
[+] linker3000|14 years ago|reply
I've tried a few tabby things in my time, but settled on mRemoteNG for combined ssh (PuTTY), RDP, VNC, ICA tabbed goodness. If they could shoehorn Xming in there as well it would be near-perfect.

http://www.mremoteng.org/

[+] zapman449|14 years ago|reply
I tend to use screen, rather than use tabbed CLI windows. Or you could use tmux.
[+] ronnier|14 years ago|reply
I do also, although more for the ability to reconnect to my session.
[+] unwind|14 years ago|reply
From the description:

"The session management and autologon is included and more feathers will come."

Could this be a misspelling/autocorrect of "features", or is using "feathers" here idiomatic? Not trying to point the finger, I'm curious.

[+] lurker19|14 years ago|reply
The writer is not a native user of English. The github site is full of nonstandard usage and small errors.

Darn good for a 2nd++ language, though.

/ Born lucky moninguist

[+] Maro|14 years ago|reply
IMO the best SSH client on Windows is SecureCRT, though it's not free.
[+] cytzol|14 years ago|reply
I've heard of SecureCRT, but I haven't seen anything that would draw me away from PuTTY - what do you use it for? (genuinely curious)
[+] chappi42|14 years ago|reply
...and I use TakeCommand/LE.

For me so far the best (for working in teh cygwin bash (used Terminator before, and Putty, and Console2...)).

[+] toblender|14 years ago|reply
Nice, I keep finding myself pressing ctrl-T when I'm using putty. Now hopefully will actually do something.
[+] lurker19|14 years ago|reply
My office uses the existing PuTTy Connection Manager for tabs.

It had a few quirks, but it works.

[+] samuel1604|14 years ago|reply
the first impression i had when clicking on the link, it's got to be a old and unmaintained project because it's on sourceforge... nice to see some new projects are still going there, good for them.
[+] th0ma5|14 years ago|reply
all the tabbed versions i've played with have windows API artifacts, hangs, bugs, etc... probably the most successful thing i've tried was (tediously) konsole from KDE compiled using Cygwin
[+] ak217|14 years ago|reply
I'd like to see tabs support in mintty...
[+] bryogenic|14 years ago|reply
cygwin + ssh + screen is my simple solution