In windows, I program remotely via SSH almost exclusively. I use a program called Poderosa, which I would be sad to be without.

I'm planning on getting back to "linux on the desktop", but I haven't re-taken the plunge in a while.

I was wondering if there was something comperable for linux, like a framed terminal would probably be sufficient.

Any ideas?

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In windows, I program remotely via SSH almost exclusively. I use a program called Poderosa, which I would be sad to be without. I'm planning on getting back to "linux on the desktop", but I haven't re-taken the plunge in a while. I was wondering if there was something comperable for linux, like a framed terminal would probably be sufficient. Any ideas?

I code exclusively in vim, both at work and at home. We're 100% Mac at work but I haven't found any GUIs I like to code in, so a terminal running vim is still my go-to. Since I do the same at home (in Linux of course), I can't offer much in the way of GUIs.

I DO use screen in both places, but I don't know if it's an ample substitute for what you use now (most likely it is not). It's basically a virtual terminal in a terminal, and you can move around to other terminals using hotkeys. You can also detach and re-attach the screen session at will, which makes it exponentially valuable for leaving it open in the background (so you can code, detach, log out, log back in from somewhere else, reattach and you're right where you left off, with all of you existing screens untouched). But, there's not really a GUI for it, it's all handled with hotkeys.

Poderosa looks pretty cool though. When in windoze, I usually just rock putty since I'm all terminal baby! Still, having visual tabs and whatnot could be kinda fun.... I don't want more than 1 SSH session at a time though, and I'm guessing Poderosa just starts a new session for each tab.

Looking through the Synaptic Package Manager for "ssh" didn't return much of anything useful, except maybe clusterSSH, grcm (which I don't think is what you are looking for), KDESSH (if you plan on runngin KDE....) and the fact that there's a putty port for Linux. I'll keep an eye out though.

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I code exclusively in vim, both at work and at home. We're 100% Mac at work but I haven't found any GUIs I like to code in, so a terminal running vim is still my go-to. Since I do the same at home (in Linux of course), I can't offer much in the way of GUIs.

I guess I wasn't super clear. Poderosa is just a terminal with frames instead of seperate windows for each terminal. I almost ALWAYS have at least 3 terminals up (2 with code, and one with mysql), though it's not uncommon for me to have 6 or more frames (terminals) going with various status info on my servers (see attachment) and yeah, I code exclusively in vim. Every other editor is painful.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it opens a seperate session for each.

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It seems like what you want is just a GUI for screen. You could get roughly the same effect from a tabbed terminal, like gnome-terminal or whatever KDE comes with. Just open up a couple and use the tabs. Gnome-terminal is pretty slow though (yeah, a slow terminal, fucking Gnome), I doubt KDE's offering is any better. I'm rocking aterm right now; nice and fast with "transparency".

Check out screen and see if you can live without the GUI. Linky link. This is kind of a cool idea too, and you're a Perl guy (as I recall anyway, your code looks like PHP), so all the better. Google might help too.

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It seems like what you want is just a GUI for screen.

Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Hopefully it'll fill my void (i'll be playing with linux again when I get back from my honeymoon, which will be early december).

I'm pretty stoked to get back into it.

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Found this while looking for something COMPLETELY different. I have no idea vim had native tab support. I'll have to look into this myself, but it sounds like it might be right up your alley.

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Wow. I too had no idea vim natively supported tabs. It could help.

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Wow. I too had no idea vim natively supported tabs. It could help.

I still haven't used them myself, but it seemed like it would do what you wanted. For how much I use vim (it's the ONLY thing I program in), I know surprising little about the more advanced features. If you get into it, do share!

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For how much I use vim (it's the ONLY thing I program in), I know surprising little about the more advanced features.

hehe...same here.

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