Tabs for PuTTY

    I have been using PuTTY's Telnet / SSH client for a long time, but I always lacked tabs in it. Developers complain , they say, for the implementation of tabs it is necessary to completely rewrite the entire GUI application, and we do not see any good reason for changing the concept of a lightweight client. So the task has been hanging in the pool of improvements with the low priority status for a long time. Suffering users write a petition to developers, and especially “sleek” hang all kinds of wrappers on PuTTY.

    In search of a decent solution, I came across a worthy candidate: PuTTY Connection Manager (current version: beta 0.6.0.4822, freeware, no source) Platform: C #, .NET Framework 2.0 OS:

    PuTTY Connection Manager


    x32 Windows XP SP1 / SP2, Vista, 2000

    The developer went the simple way: he wrote a wrapper that embeds PuTTY graphical instances in application tabs. In this regard, there are some difficulties with the focus of windows: when the putty instance is active, the focus is removed from the window of the manager himself, and vice versa. The current solution (the alt + shift key combination changes focus between the wrapper and the terminal) is actually quite reasonable and does not cause any inconvenience when working.

    From pleasant
    • keyboard tabs
    • hot keys, combinations of which can be changed in the settings
    • F11 fullscreen
    • connection manager
    • quick connect panel
    • auto update


    What confused
    • the wrapper turned out to be a little heavy: it takes a long time to load, but by itself it works smartly
    • there is a hotkey for switching to the F3 connection list, but the intuitive launch of the terminal from the keyboard does not work with the Enter key - you have to pervert
    • Manage separate connection databases from the PuTTY registry. Until I realized where it might come in handy
    • in the quick connect panel, the default Telnet protocol
    • does not save the connection manager position from the last session


    At first I didn’t understand why the author did not add a hotkey to close the tab, later I realized that everything was ready in PuTTY: the combination of Ctrl + C or Ctrl + D closes the connection and the terminal. True, dead connections still have to be closed with the mouse.

    In general, I liked the application - a promising start. I hope the developer will not stop developing it and bring it to a stable release =)

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