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Terminals everywhere, how do you deal with?
pubcrawler
Banned
I live all day in a sloppy desktop environment with dozens of tabs in the browser.
Worse yet is my terminal pile. Probably 15 terminals opened up with various things running.
Long used terminator to manage the mess, but that's reached it's limit and some annoying bugs in it that get me from time to time.
What is everyone else using to manage their piles of terminals and keep things organized?
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Guake
Also allows you to rename tabs, and can be fully keyboard-controlled.
I'm using it without transparency though.
@pubcrawler biggest improvement for me, escaping a cluttered desktop env was using a tiling window manager (in my case dwm). Boom - no more fumbling around with windows. For terminal; urxvt + tmux (name your windows in tmux with a CTRL B , )
Tabbed terminal in xfce, and a PROMPT_COMMAND='blah blah' line in the .profile of each server, which puts something like user@hostname in the tab title.
I often use GeekTool to cut down the terminal windows into organized sections of the desktop. More useful for monitoring than interacting.
The solution to that problem for me was buying SecureCRT. They have a mac and linux version ass well.
For SSH I use multi tabbed SSH (MTPuTTY).
Yakuake
bukuake
+1
You could use one screen session with multiple windows in one terminal. Each window for a different server. It can be a tad tricky if you are also attached to another screen session on the server, however, screen inside of a screen is very hard to deal with, you just need to be aware of it, and the modifier for a screen inside of a screen is ctrl-a-a
Definitely, tmux is great; I run it on my home server which is always up, ssh to that, and attach / detach as needed. But most everything I need to do is handled much more effectively by ansible (for configuration management) and shinken/nagios (for monitoring).
MPuTTY
SecureCRT is nice if your workplace pays for it. Otherwise, overpriced.
same, been using SecureCRT for 10+ yrs now, latest v7.x has side by side tiled session windows too http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html
SecureCRT button toolbar is awesome, can create shortcuts to run commands, run scripts etc etc http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/buttonbar.html
http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/index.php?pid=securecrt
they have 30 day free trial so you can check it out
SecureCRT looks good but as stated it seems highly overpriced.
Has anyone used mRemote?
http://www.mremoteng.org
they have 30 day free trial so you can see if it's worth it
for me over 10+ yrs i've managed 1000s of client servers and SecureCRT makes my job managing them alot easier so it pays for itself
you can also combine whatever ssh client you use with a virtual desktop app i.e. i use dexpot with multi monitor support, so i have 4x dual monitor virtual desktops (8 virtual desktops in total) http://dexpot.en.softonic.com/
desktops http://i.imgur.com/2kaEh.png
Yeah, will download and check.
Being on mac limited to good alternative however did find this by Apple on the store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-remote-desktop/id409907375?mt=12
well SecureCRT does support Windows, Linux and MAC OSes http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/mac_osx.html
http://www.mremoteng.org
Yeah, its putty inside the application, works so-so on windows, focus not always where it should be. If you ever get around and "learn"/adapt to this things, its ok.
Iterm2 on mac most of the time
KiTTY – Portable SSH Client for Windows
ConnectBot client for the Android platform
I use yakuake, with a menu on my desktop, using yakuake-session
I never really got more than 5 connections at the same time. If I got it is because I need to do something on all the servers. And that will be done with Clusterssh.
I always use mRemoteNG with KiTTY
xTerm + awesome WM
I'm surprised nobody has suggested Cluster SSH:
!(http://eric.lubow.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cssh_screenshot.jpg)
ZOC is another one http://www.emtec.com/zoc/index.html
@sean, cluster ssh is interesting. But isn't it a terminal thing where all commands get streamed to all the terminals? Can you only send commands to say one terminal at a time?
indeed clusterssh looks interesting
i know secureCRT can send 1 command to all ssh window tabs opened in the app, very useful
I use the standard Terminal app in OSX. Works fine for my needs... I have two windows open usually with at least 5 tabs in each - the windows overlap a bit on my monitor (laptop display) but I know where everything is and can move between them efficiently enough.
@sean I talked about clusterssh. It is really great for managing multiple servers, for experimentinh and such it is useless tough.