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Is there any nice looking terminal with more features and sexy looks than putty?

I find it very boring.

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    What features do you want?
    – Stephen Jennings
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 7:30
  • isn't putty for windows ? else you could use whatever terminal you wanted.
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 7:34
  • putty is solving my needs but just curious to know if there are some programs like that . i am using windows
    – Mirage
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 8:05
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    See related question serverfault.com/questions/191140/best-ssh-program-for-windows/…
    – RedGrittyBrick
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 16:49
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    Putty Connection Manager (puttycm) adds a lot of features to Putty, such as tabbed connections and a whole lot of other things.
    – LawrenceC
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 17:03

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Well, it's not just a simple terminal like PuTTY, but I'm hugely fond of MobaXterm - it has tabs, a good amount of *nix native plugins on Windows, multiple terminals and you can use it just like any Linux terminal. The more recent builds also do SSH X forwarding and quite a few other interesting things.

Unlike PuTTY though, you'd need to use SSH from CLI to connect to a system via SSH.

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  • Btw, mobaXterm uses a modified version of mintty as its terminal component, which in turn is derived from PuTTY.
    – ak2
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 8:50
  • and cygwin and... the main advantage to it, to me is that its a single executable and can be popped on a thumbdrive ;p
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 23:49
  • Actually with Mobaxterm you can setup favorites and just like in putty you can double click and it will open a new tab with that connection. While you can still use the CLI to connect, I find having that list of favorites makes my life easier.
    – Natalie Adams
    Commented Oct 13, 2012 at 18:00
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My choice would be the ZOC SSH/Telnet Terminal

Looks very sexy to me and has more feature than I ever needed (and I needed a lot).

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    Upvote for using the word "sexy" to describe a piece of software.
    – Natalie Adams
    Commented Oct 13, 2012 at 18:01
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Kitty

  • An icon for each session
  • Transparency
  • Roll-up
  • Always visible
  • Background image
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  • Yep, Kitty, coupled with SuperPuTTY for multi-tabbed/windowing github.com/phendryx/superputty
    – Linker3000
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 18:10
  • Kitty happens to have much better "scripting" capabilities than Putty. Which becomes very useful on Windows machines to go through multiple SSH gateways. On linux you would use expectfor this.
    – Alain Pannetier
    Commented May 30, 2013 at 6:10
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It's the other way round (may be I'm biased): putty is the windows replacement for linux/unix ssh.

So if you just type ssh myaccount@server, you have a terminal emulator session to the node server. What I mean is that putty makes up for the lack of ssh command under Windows standard installation.

Having said that, I do understand what you mean and have better answers.

  • For one thing putty works perfectly well with wine if you really miss putty or if you are looking for a common toolset between Linux and Windows.

  • I'm told there is also a native putty binary (credits to @Journeyman Geek)

  • There are plenty of alternative terminal emulator for Linux, the vast majority of them support the SSH protocol. I would recommend Terminator for all its nice features like splitting windows horizontally and/or vertically.

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    there IS a native linux build of putty - but its one of those 'if you need to ask' things ;p
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 8:21
  • @JourneymanGeek, your right. It sometimes help when you have to share ssh tunneling commands with non linux developers (for instance in a Maven POM).
    – Alain Pannetier
    Commented May 30, 2013 at 6:08
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Here are a couple I came accross that you might find more appealing. I have to say though that if you find PuTTY boring you're not a geek!

SecureCRT

securecrt

Tunnelier

Tunnelier

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I recently found a terminal which could be used as a replacement for PuTTY, called ClearTerminal. It's free, seems fairly simple and easy to use, and at the same time has many good features which are not freely available otherwise.

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There's also Cygwin mintty and Tera Term, which are handy at times. Mintty is useful if you happen to use the Cygwin environment. Tera Term is nice because it keeps the configuration in a config file rather than in the registry.

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  • Mintty stores its config in a file rather than the registry as well.
    – ak2
    Commented May 2, 2011 at 1:45
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There's PuTTY Tray: Redux by Toby Simmons (last updated in February this year) and PuTTY Tray by Chris West (last updated a couple of days ago).

I think there are no practical differences between these two. Both are based on the original PuTTY Tray by Barry Haanstra.

Or would everyone agree about the differences?

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I've started using Cygwin instead of PuTTY. ssh, scp, and a bunch of other features work right out of the box and now that I'm so used to the bash, I find myself preferring it to cmd.exe.

It's probably not really what you're looking for in terms of eye candy, but it hits a sweet spot for a programmer like me with its functionality.

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I started using KiTTY and mRemoteNG. KiTTY http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=Download is an updated PuTTY and mRemoteNG is a session manager: http://www.mremoteng.org/download I have read reviews and my own experience so far is this is better than plain putty or its manager. Give this a try and let me know if you find issues or interesting features we can all use. Thanks

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"Link only answers are bad"

http://alternativeto.net/software/putty/?platform=linux since you tagged it with Linux, but in your comments you say you are using Windows, so http://alternativeto.net/software/putty/?platform=windows

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  • sorry for that i tagged linux as putty was used to link linux systems
    – Mirage
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 8:16
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    that looks like a link only answer ;p
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 8:18
  • Should be a comment
    – Roy Truelove
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 13:53

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