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Tabbed PuTTy client

43 points by cgbystrom 15y ago

jsherer 15y ago
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.
unwind 15y ago
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 15y ago
  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
- lurker19 15y ago
  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
singlow 15y ago
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 15y ago
  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.
  - damncabbage 15y ago
    Previously, when you sent a putty window to the right-hand side of the screen with <Win>+<Right> (for example), it wouldn't resize, and you'd end up with the window sticking out and not taking up the correct area on the screen. Now it actually works. :)
    - ak217 15y ago
      Oh, I see now. I guess it has worked in mintty for a while, and I didn't even notice it wasn't working in putty.
      - shadowfox 15y ago
        It also added jump list support. (Unless I somehow missed it's existence in the previous versions). So if you have it pinned on the task bar, your recently used sessions show up in the jump list and you can start them directly. It also provides access to puttygen and pageant from the right click menu.
lurker19 15y ago
My office uses the existing PuTTy Connection Manager for tabs. It had a few quirks, but it works.
imperialWicket 15y ago
PuTTYtabs: http://www.raisin.de/putty-tabs/putty-tabs.html http://www.raisin.de/putty-tabs/putty-tabs.html Or Connection Manger with arrangable tabs: http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ It's a great idea, but not new...
elliottcarlson 15y ago
I use PenguiNet over PuTTy - nice clean interface and excellent support - http://www.siliconcircus.com/ http://www.siliconcircus.com/
- falcolas 15y ago
  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.
  - eropple 15y ago
    For your case I can see that being a big deal. I'd strongly recommend PenguiNet for people with slightly more conventional needs--aside from feature reqs like this, I feel that it's head and shoulders above PuTTY and the programs that hang as a bag off the side of it like PuTTYCM.
zapman449 15y ago
I tend to use screen, rather than use tabbed CLI windows. Or you could use tmux.
- ronnier 15y ago
  I do also, although more for the ability to reconnect to my session.
ak217 15y ago
I'd like to see tabs support in mintty...
th0ma5 15y ago
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
sjsotelo 15y ago
I think this is great! its simple and works... also it remembers my SSH keys for each instance.
- cgbystrom 15y ago
  If you use Pageant with PuTTy you need not worry about what SSH keys for which server. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...
AndyNemmity 15y ago
I use poderosa as my tabbed putty/cygwin client http://en.poderosa.org/ http://en.poderosa.org/ It's REALLY awesome and I absolutely love it, but there hasn't been a release since 2006. Thankfully, I haven't needed a new release.
- quicksilver03 15y ago
  Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/poderosa/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/poderosa/ , the latest beta is from June 2011. I have been running it daily and it is very stable for me.
  - eropple 15y ago
    Whoa, thanks. I moved to PenguiNet because older builds of Poderosa had severe and crippling rendering problems, but I'll give it another shot.
chappi42 15y ago
...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 15y ago
Nice, I keep finding myself pressing ctrl-T when I'm using putty. Now hopefully will actually do something.
linker3000 15y ago
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/ http://www.mremoteng.org/
bryogenic 15y ago
cygwin + ssh + screen is my simple solution
Maro 15y ago
IMO the best SSH client on Windows is SecureCRT, though it's not free.
- cytzol 15y ago
  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)
samuel1604 15y ago
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.

43 points by cgbystrom 15y ago

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.

unwind 15y ago

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 15y ago
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
lurker19 15y ago
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

singlow 15y ago

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 15y ago
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.
- damncabbage 15y ago
  Previously, when you sent a putty window to the right-hand side of the screen with <Win>+<Right> (for example), it wouldn't resize, and you'd end up with the window sticking out and not taking up the correct area on the screen. Now it actually works. :)
  - ak217 15y ago
    Oh, I see now. I guess it has worked in mintty for a while, and I didn't even notice it wasn't working in putty.
    - shadowfox 15y ago
      It also added jump list support. (Unless I somehow missed it's existence in the previous versions). So if you have it pinned on the task bar, your recently used sessions show up in the jump list and you can start them directly. It also provides access to puttygen and pageant from the right click menu.

lurker19 15y ago

My office uses the existing PuTTy Connection Manager for tabs. It had a few quirks, but it works.

imperialWicket 15y ago

PuTTYtabs: http://www.raisin.de/putty-tabs/putty-tabs.html http://www.raisin.de/putty-tabs/putty-tabs.html Or Connection Manger with arrangable tabs: http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ It's a great idea, but not new...

elliottcarlson 15y ago

I use PenguiNet over PuTTy - nice clean interface and excellent support - http://www.siliconcircus.com/ http://www.siliconcircus.com/

falcolas 15y ago
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.
- eropple 15y ago
  For your case I can see that being a big deal. I'd strongly recommend PenguiNet for people with slightly more conventional needs--aside from feature reqs like this, I feel that it's head and shoulders above PuTTY and the programs that hang as a bag off the side of it like PuTTYCM.

zapman449 15y ago

I tend to use screen, rather than use tabbed CLI windows. Or you could use tmux.

ronnier 15y ago
I do also, although more for the ability to reconnect to my session.

ak217 15y ago

I'd like to see tabs support in mintty...

th0ma5 15y ago

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

sjsotelo 15y ago

I think this is great! its simple and works... also it remembers my SSH keys for each instance.

cgbystrom 15y ago
If you use Pageant with PuTTy you need not worry about what SSH keys for which server. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...

AndyNemmity 15y ago

I use poderosa as my tabbed putty/cygwin client http://en.poderosa.org/ http://en.poderosa.org/ It's REALLY awesome and I absolutely love it, but there hasn't been a release since 2006. Thankfully, I haven't needed a new release.

quicksilver03 15y ago
Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/poderosa/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/poderosa/ , the latest beta is from June 2011. I have been running it daily and it is very stable for me.
- eropple 15y ago
  Whoa, thanks. I moved to PenguiNet because older builds of Poderosa had severe and crippling rendering problems, but I'll give it another shot.

chappi42 15y ago

...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 15y ago

Nice, I keep finding myself pressing ctrl-T when I'm using putty. Now hopefully will actually do something.

linker3000 15y ago

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/ http://www.mremoteng.org/

bryogenic 15y ago

cygwin + ssh + screen is my simple solution

Maro 15y ago

IMO the best SSH client on Windows is SecureCRT, though it's not free.

cytzol 15y ago
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)

samuel1604 15y ago

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.