PuTTY to Poderosa Tabbed Display

posted by Allan@TechCrammer @ 1:29pm, Tuesday 6 January 2009.

Don't get me wrong, PuTTY is great and "free" and I have used it for years when connecting to our co-located Linux servers from my Windows PC. Yeah, I know I should be using a Linux desktop and would probably solve all my problems. As soon as I can get everyone using OpenOffice.org then I will... But for now... I am still doing Admin work via SSH.

I found myself with a bunch of PuTTY sessions always minimized on my desktop until someone told me about the Poderosa Open Source terminal emulator; similar to PuTTY, though will allow for features liked tabbed SSH sessions and even cooler vertical/horizontal split windows. This helped me alot so I thought I would share with someone else who may not know.

I am running this on Windows XP and the site doesn't mention Vista, though says it runs on .NET Framework 2.0. Also your default window will be a white background, which I didn't like. All you have to do is right click and choose "Edit Display Profile..." Then save this as a shortcut and you are all set.

-Allan

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