PuTTY's pretty much relegated to the emergency usb key these days. Runs on pretty much any Windows and without installing, but not really ideal for heavy use imho.
Cygwin + urxvt + clusterssh is the choice of Windows-mandated champions.
PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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What are the benefits of using PuTTY over plain ssh in a *NIX environment?
Putty has nice nethack support.
You can also run nethack under 'cp437' (https://github.com/keaston/cp437) to use the IBMGraphics option on a UTF-8 terminal like gnome-terminal.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#73Since 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).
It's been a while since I was stuck on a Windows box, but I found the combination of Console2 (tabbed terminal emulator) with Cygwin[1] was quite nice. Then you can use `ssh', `scp', etc. like you would on a Unix machine. You might want to try this approach if you're willing to go as far as to do this from your browser (which gives me shivers). This was on Windows XP but I imagine it still works. [1] http://sourcefor…
You should have a look at ConEmu[1] as well
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold? just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...
just get rid of windows 8 I'm not aware of the grouping functionality changing between 7 to 8, at least to the extent that 8 doesn't group more aggressively than 7. In both operating systems you can customise whether applications are grouped or not. And although it's not necessarily PuTTY's job to change because of a new feature in the OS (taskbar grouping), I'd note that there is an API for controlling it [1]. [1] h…
in win8 if you are using a metro application you can't switch to a specific window right away in all the ways you can with windows 7. at least not in the old build i used.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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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.
if he's using win8 i'm pretty sure his only option is win7...
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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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!
My first thought was this sounds a lot like the "screen" command. Which is basically true, but with the added benefit of screen splitting. Also, tmux is distributed under the BSD license (instead of GPL). http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Screen_vs_tmux
That article implies that tmux is faster than screen. While it may be the case that it uses fewer resources (which I've not checked), it's exclusively been my experience that tmux is laggy where screen isn't.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#77Since 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).
Since putty.exe is so small you could make a bunch of copies. Launch putty1.exe for the first session, etc.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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just get rid of windows 8 I'm not aware of the grouping functionality changing between 7 to 8, at least to the extent that 8 doesn't group more aggressively than 7. In both operating systems you can customise whether applications are grouped or not. And although it's not necessarily PuTTY's job to change because of a new feature in the OS (taskbar grouping), I'd note that there is an API for controlling it [1]. [1] h…
in win8 if you are using a metro application you can't switch to a specific window right away in all the ways you can with windows 7. at least not in the old build i used.
I can't disagree, but I doubt that if you're using PuTTY you're using Metro.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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If you've got a dozen open PuTTY windows, you should really look at SecureCRT. Tabbed sessions, tiling, configurable keyboard/mouse shortcuts, password encryption/automatic session login and best of all, scripting support for Perl/Python. It's $99, but I've easily saved 1000x that amount by being able to quickly script shell interactions that don't easily lend themselves to the regular scripting tools like 'expect'.…
yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold? just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...
It more than sounds a troll comment lacking any thought.
That's like saying tabs should not be in Chrome/FF and Windows/OSX/Linux flavor should handle all of your browsing windows just fine.
Things like tmux would also be a bad thing in your world, the window manger should handle this!
GP needs a putty manager (many exist) and will solve his needs. Much like other programs across multiple OS's solve the same need
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#80Since 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).
Since putty.exe is so small you could make a bunch of copies. Launch putty1.exe for the first session, etc.
Duplicating the PuTTY binary for each session makes about as much sense as having a separate MS Office installation for each and every Word document.