Looking for a tabbed shell for WinXP
This is a call to the software world…has anyone found a tabbed shell application for Windows? I’m going crazy with 4 dos sessions open in separate shell instances. Why hasn’t anyone created the equivalent of Konsole or Terminal for the Windows world. It’s not an elaborate or complex program idea, so I don’t know why someone wouldn’t have created it already. I just want to have tabbed instances so I don’t have 4 separate windows floating all over the place. I’ve googled around looking for such a thing, but no luck. Anyone seen this around?
May 15th, 2005 at 6:56 am
Try installing cygwin, and running a local ssh instance on your machine. From there, you should be able to use a terminal emulator like SecureCRT, which has tabs.
May 15th, 2005 at 10:04 am
I want that too. And also a better cmd.exe with more features. I end up using rxvt.exe and bash from Cygwin, but some programs doesn’t run very well in it. mysql.exe comes to mind.
May 24th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Thanks for mentioning SecureCRT 5.0 with its new tabbed UI Will. Blaine, SecureCRT 5.0, which is late beta right now (the official release is expected sometime in June) offers exactly what you’re looking for as does CRT, the non-secure shell version of our terminal emulator.
Here’s a link: http://www.vandyke.com/products/beta/securecrt/index.html
We offer a 30-day, fully functional evaluation backed by excellent technical support.
July 7th, 2005 at 2:48 am
Tried the secureCRT yesterday. Excellent with tabbed interface it would actually be worth the $99. However it didn’t emulate the keyboard as good as putty. For example it doesn’t work using the arrow keys or pg up pg down when using vim 6.1.320 on a Debain dist from SCRT with XP Pro, putty handles this without a problem.
- Vandyke, fix this problem and you get my $99.
February 10th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
The problem with cygwin is that it’s an install particularly huge. I’m sure you could cut out all the other stuff..but isn’t there a more simple solution?..er that doesn’t cost $99? I mean, firefox did it! I hated 4 instances of IE running but FF does tabbing! it’s great. something similar…
i googled this.
February 20th, 2006 at 6:55 am
You should try Poderosa (http://en.poderosa.org); it is a .NET application which provides a tabbed terminal emulator; you can open cygwin, SFU or telnet sessions, but unfortunately no CMD.EXE sessions…
February 23rd, 2006 at 7:46 am
Check out http://www.wintabber.com, this program can tab almost any window, like putty, explorer and maybe cme.exe. Looks pretty nice too, and it should be available this year!
March 9th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Use “Poderosa” (http://en.poderosa.org/). It provides most of the things you asked for in a very efficient manner and the best part is, it is FREE!!
. IT provides everything that putty provides (telnet SSH1 and SSH2) with Tabbing. It also integrates with cygwin and provides some very powerful macro functionality.
August 18th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Thank you Lifehacker! I finally found a solution to this problem today. It looks like exactly what I was looking for. http://lifehacker.com/software/command-line/download-of-the-day-console-185232.php