Replacement For PuTTY
I found a really nice replacement for PuTTy which offers tabbed sessions in a single window, renaming of tabs, and color support for xterm, vt100, and kterm. It’s also open source! It’s called Poderosa (http://en.poderosa.org/). Grab it now!
Reader Comments
Thanks for the recommendation. Poderosa is certainly nicer than PuTTY, but it seems to have some…issues. This is especially true when sshing into another server and mistyping my password – it seems to just hang. I’m gonna keep trying it out, but if it continues to frustrate me I’m going back to PuTTY.
I agree that it has some issues, but for a free client I think it’s worth it. I noticed the hanging when mistyping the password issue as well. It’s easy enough to detect, and a quick Alt-W will close the window and Alt-F-1 will reopen the last connection made. Another issue it has is that it opens in a default window size, regardless of whether or not it is maximized. To fix this, you have to double click it to make it not full-screen, and then re-maximize it.
I don’t mind doing these things though because I like having all my windows in one program on the task bar, and with labels. You can rename tabs, so when I have 3 connections open to a single server, I can label them such as ‘build’, ‘test’, and ‘code’.
Maybe I’ll submit some bug issues to the developers when I get the time.