asterisk users - Jun 2010 - What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

Hi Everyone,

I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many SSH
profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very good when
it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and specially it
doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving the IP address as
the title of the window would help a lot if you have many different servers
opened at the same time.

Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software is
and why?

Thanks,
Bruce
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bruce bruce wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many 
> SSH profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very 
> good when it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and 
> specially it doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving 
> the IP address as the title of the window would help a lot if you have 
> many different servers opened at the same time.
> 
> Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software 
> is and why?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruce
> 
I just run Linux as my desktop and that makes it much easier :)

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:53:42AM -0400, bruce bruce
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many
SSH
> profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very good
when
> it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and specially it
> doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving the IP
address as
> the title of the window would help a lot if you have many different servers
> opened at the same time.
> 
> Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software is
> and why?
Not that I use it myself, but I get recommendations for
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
as a rather usable distribution of terminal+ssh .

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I do not use windows on the desktop/laptop, but when I have to I use putty.

Darkbasic

On 06/29/2010 06:53 AM, bruce bruce wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many
> SSH profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very
> good when it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and
> specially it doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving
> the IP address as the title of the window would help a lot if you have
> many different servers opened at the same time.
I haven't used Putty for several months and that was with a setup I'd 
made several years ago so I can't, off the top of my head, tell you how 
I did it; but I had the remote system's name or IP in the window title 
bar.  It might nave been the name I saved the connection as.

Look in the configuration under Terminal.  Something like a %s and make 
sure the terminal type is either Linux or ANSI.  Again too long ago.


Rod
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>
> Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software
> is and why?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>

I use a release of putty called putty tray available at
http://haanstra.eu/putty/ for its URL clickability

This is what ubuntu does, for some reason not for screen sessions
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:
${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

One of the distros sets it so that it says which window is active so
at the top it says like:
[screen:1] root at prometheus: /etc/

Also take a look in the session configuration look under Window -> Behavior

Most of your complaints sound like configuration options, whats wrong
with scrolling, the default 200 line buffer?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, bruce bruce <bruceb444 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many
SSH
> profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very good
when
> it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and specially it
> doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving the IP
address as
> the title of the window would help a lot if you have many different servers
> opened at the same time.
> Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software is
> and why?
> Thanks,
> Bruce
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Shift + Page Up and Shift + Page Down. Leif Madsen told me this in 2005 when
I was new to Linux and Asterisk, at an Asterisk seminar in Mississauga.
Thanks Leif, it made my life easier to scroll through the logs.

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On 2010-07-04 11:36 PM, "bruce bruce" <bruceb444 at gmail.com>
wrote:

And the 20k+ lines is where it's really hard to handle. The scroll bar is
too small and I was wishing there was an easy page up or page down function
maybe to it rather than using the mouse.

Thanks for the input.



On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com>
wrote:
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> I use PUTTY 0.58 a...
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, William Stillwell (Lists) <
william.stillwell-lists at ablebody.net> wrote:
> I use SecureCRT+FX , and use ansi graphics.
>
> Putty is nice w/WinSCP as well.
>
>
>
I'll +1 this - SecureCRT+FX is the first thing I got my employer to buy a
license of for me when I had to start using Windows on my desktop for other
reasons instead of a Linux Distro.  I do keep a copy of PuTTY handy on too
though, the great thing about putty is that it doesn;t require it to be
installed on a desktop, so you can just keep a copy of the executable on a
USB flash drive or Windows share that you can then run from any desktop if
you happen to be at a computer other than your own.

PuTTY works well, but there are some things in it that just drive me
absolutely crazy, like right-click in the window is an automatic paste... i
have pasted into a putty window by accident more times than I can count,
most of the time its from doing a right-click expecting a context menu to
get a 'copy' action and then i just end up pasting what i actually
wanted to
copy :|

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On 30/06/10 1:53 AM, bruce bruce wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am accustomed to PUTTY and it's very nice as in it allows many many
> SSH profiles to be saved and allows tunneling etc....but it's not very
> good when it comes to scrolling up and down, colors, text size, and
> specially it doesn't give a title to the opened instance. Maybe giving
> the IP address as the title of the window would help a lot if you have
> many different servers opened at the same time.
>
> Can you please weigh in and tell me what your favorite terminal software
> is and why?
Late response, and I don't use Windows any more, but SecureCRT with 
tabbed SSH windows and buttons which can be set up for things like "nano 
/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf" make life pretty simple.

On Mac I now use iTerm (similar thing).

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