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Poderosa: The Terminal Emulator

Sravan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:00:50 +0000

The terminal is an important aspect of Cygwin like for any Unix-based OS. For this reason, you might see its users like me chasing after fancy ways of beautifying it. Well, I will try to make this the last time.

Poderosa is the best terminal emulator for Cygwin that I have come across. It has a tabbed GUI, much like the PuTTY Connection Manager. However, in addition to the network communication protocols through which one can connect to a remote system using PuTTY, local Cygwin shells can also be opened using Poderosa. I use it mainly for the latter purpose.

Poderosa allows the user to set custom fonts and colors, keyboard shortcuts, command suggestions, etc. The “detailed preference editor” is especially useful, though not very straightforward to use. The app was built in a plug-in architecture and allows one to build custom plug-ins.

Poderosa too needs .NET Framework 2.0 preinstalled on your computer. Unlike PuTTY Connection Manager, I found Poderosa very stable. For telnet though, Poderosa gave me trouble where the PuTTY Connection Manager worked.

Poderosa, according to the website, had funding from the Japanese Govt. during 2005. Presently, its development seems to have stopped over a couple of years ago. The last release was v4.1.0 and you can get it from here.

Image Source: Poderosa on my PC.

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Poderosa: The Terminal Emulator

PuTTY Connection Manager for Tabbed PuTTY

Sravan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:00:47 +0000

PuTTY is a free Windows client that allows users to log into remote systems through raw, Telnet, SSH, remote login, and serial connections. It is primarily used for logging into UNIX systems through Telnet and SSH, and at 444KB (direct executable) is very popular with UNIX lovers even though its last version of 0.60 beta has not been updated in nearly two years.

I recently discovered that there is a tabbed version of PuTTY called the PuTTY Connection Manager allowing multiple PuTTY instances in a single window.

PuTTY Connection Manager has several other features like workspace customizations, auto-login and post-login commands, Import/Export connection info to XML, and localization in French. Though the installation installs a help document, it runs as a standalone application and is easily portable.

The app crashed on a few instances while I was using it, and it takes a few seconds to start, but I find it very useful. Also, considering that it is still in version 0.7 alpha and is actively being updated, I have every hope that it will become more stable in the coming future.

The app was developed using C# and it needs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Unlike PuTTY this is not open source but a freeware.

Image Source: Putty Connection Manager website.

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PuTTY Connection Manager for Tabbed PuTTY