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It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
IMHO - it has the best windowing system. Trivial perhaps, but it's the one huge thing that continuously bothers me about Ubuntu and OSX.
(I like tiling window managers like XMonad for example.)
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Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.
# set up for putty: # From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment:
reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg reg import putty.reg
I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
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Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.
> Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Try XMonad on Linux. It does allow me to manage my windows better.
Not that a tiling manager is going to be of ANY help in OP's case; I really doubt the auto-scaling and tiling of his windows is what is making him struggle with dozens of PuTTY instances.
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Linux is bigger than Ubuntu. There are Linux WMs that are FAR beyond what's available in Windows or OSX.
Obviously. Nothing you said is helpful to the OP or helps to support the post I replied to. Not to mention, Windows has numerous windowing or window tiling managers [0]; the Linux elitism is not helpful, especially when grossly misinformed. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#Microsoft...
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
If you have a ton of shell connections open at once, consider trying a "base station" linux machine from which you jump out to other machines, + tmux. This way you ssh to machine1, run tmux, then you can create as many sessions as you want in whatever combination of windows/tabs you like. Bonus: you can disconnect from machine1, and when you reconnect everything is still in place. Worth a try for sure!
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
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You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.
I thought it'd be obvious I was speaking generally; suggesting "any WM" to the OP is still not helpful. Windows has just as many "any WM," so I really don't know your point.
No. It doesn't. Windows has one GUI and various themes for it; Ubuntu has multiple GUIs. That's what a WM is in Linux terms: A whole new GUI that sits on top of very basic graphical primitives which don't determine anything about how a GUI looks or works.
Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?
It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
Disable the grouping? Properties, Taskbar buttons, Never combine.
Grouping puts taskbar entries from the same app next to each other.
Combining turns multiple entries for the same app into 1 entry. To select a particular window, you have to hover over or click the combined entry - which causes large thumbnails of each of the combined windows to be displayed, then click the appropriate window thumbnail.