Ubuntu
unity package

How to launch multiple PuTTY terminals in Unity

Asked by Chuck Munro

I'm using the new Unity user interface, and need to be able to launch multiple PuTTY SSH sessions concurrently. The Unity toolbar icon allows only one PuTTY terminal to be launched. Clicking on the icon again results in no action, no PuTTY menu.

How do I add the ability to do this? (A very ugly workaround is to manually launch PuTTY from a local terminal)

This is on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit

Thanks!
Chuck

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Ubuntu unity Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
marcobra (Marco Braida)
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Why do you need to? You can connect to SSH using terminal, you just need multiple tabs in your terminal.

You can press ALT+F2 and run another putty if you want, but the app isn't needed at all.

Revision history for this message
Chuck Munro (chuckm-m) said : 		#2

Good question, but the invocation of ssh in a terminal is only part of the solution.

Each PuTTY terminal is opened with different characteristics (i.e. fg/bg colours, window size, etc) to make separation of remote sessions visually easy. In addition, the remote machines use non-standard ssh ports which would have to be typed for each.

I very often copy/paste text from one session to another, so using multiple tabs makes this a little bit less convenient.

I'm lazy, and PuTTY makes all of this easy :-)

For some odd reason Alt-f2 doesn't work properly ... when I click on the PuTTY instance it finds, nothing happens (same as trying to click on the Unity toolbar icon).

Revision history for this message
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You can use the PS1 variable to set display settings, you can make the prompt a different colour :)

Revision history for this message
Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please click with the middle mouse button or right click (then look into context menu items) on the putty icon

You can also install and try

terminator

package and use them to it to have multiple instance of ssh managed into a single terminator window...

Revision history for this message
Chuck Munro (chuckm-m) said : 		#5

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.

Revision history for this message
Chuck Munro (chuckm-m) said : 		#6

Thanks Marco! I was not aware of middle-click on an icon, but it does work fine. You have solved my problem!

I am just starting to explore Unity, so I've go lots to learn. :-)

Chuck