I’m at a new job that requires that I run Windows on my workstation. Well, not really - some of the admins who have been around here longer can justify installing Linux on their boxes, but the official corporate training sequence is Windows-only, so I’m stuck with it at least until my first yearly review.
So, I’m stuck with Cygwin, and I’m looking for a terminal emulator that I can stand. This is probably a lost cause, but here’s my wish list:
[ol]
[li] Primarily a local terminal emulator, not an ssh client. I’ve already got openssh installed.[/li][li] Tabs.[/li][li] Reasonable integration with the Windows shell - maybe one modifier for copy/paste, etc.[/li][li] Mappable key bindings.[/li][li] Reasonably fast.[/li][li] Not fricking ugly - I’ve got to look at this thing for seven hours a day. This includes decent font support.[/li][/ol]
cmd.exe is a joke. Poderosa is mostly an SSH client, it’s slow, and ugly. Terminator is slow, ugly, an has goofy key mappings. Cygwin’s [m]rxvt requires that I run X, which is kinda buggy on Windows.
Basically, I want something equivalent to gnome-terminal, xfterm, or konsole.
I’m currently using PuttyCyg, which, as the name implies, is a hacked version of Putty that provides a local Cygwin session, but there are no tabs, and it feels only marginally better than a bare xterm.
I have a hard time believing that I’m the only Unix admin in this situation. Any suggestions?
I don’t know of anything other than Cygwin, but what about using VMWare and actually running Linux under Windows in a virtual machine? VMWare player and server are free.
There’s the opensource Console, which seems to be constantly in beta. I’ve never used it.
JPSoft, the makers of 4DOS, have a commercial product called TCI which again gives you a Windows console with tabs. I haven’t used this one either, but I did use 4DOS for a while, and as a console interface and a batch file scripting language it ain’t half bad.
Finally, there’s one I came across recently but never bookmarked. I seem to recall that it was opensource, and hosted on a Japanese website. I’m still looking for it…
:smack: Now the embarassment of not remembering Ponderosa being mentioned in the OP will keep me awake at night.
Sigh.
Could I possibly redeem myself by mentioning FreeSSHD? It’s a bit easier to muck with than Cygwin’s sshd, though your mileage may vary.
Putty is all I use anymore, warts and all. It would actually be perfect for my own needs if it picked up two features: copy and paste keystrokes closer to the CTRL-C/CTRL-V standard; saving its settings in a file rather than the registry.
Several moons ago, I convinced my boss to fork over the dough for a copy of SecureCRT. At $99 a pop for an SSH client, it’s not a fantastic deal by any stretch of the imagination, though the application itself is pretty decent.