If you've got a dozen open PuTTY windows, you should really look at SecureCRT. Tabbed sessions, tiling, configurable keyboard/mouse shortcuts, password encryption/automatic session login and best of all, scripting support for Perl/Python.
It's $99, but I've easily saved 1000x that amount by being able to quickly script shell interactions that don't easily lend themselves to the regular scripting tools like 'expect'.
I think the best example was where a distributed cache cluster was dirtied during a deployment. Dumping the entire 100TB+ of good data was not an option, it would have taken days to warm back up. The cache admin tool had a menu system and wouldn't buffer input, so I couldn't just dump a buffer of commands into it and wait for it to finish.
I was able to lookup recently accessed DB rows in SSH tab #1, compare them to the cache in tab #2, and invalidate in another in tab #3. Problem solved in <20 minutes. We eventually built an app to invalidate dirty cached results, but that took about a week to do it the right way.
yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold?
just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...
I'm not aware of the grouping functionality changing between 7 to 8, at least to the extent that 8 doesn't group more aggressively than 7.
In both operating systems you can customise whether applications are grouped or not.
And although it's not necessarily PuTTY's job to change because of a new feature in the OS (taskbar grouping), I'd note that there is an API for controlling it [1].
in win8 if you are using a metro application you can't switch to a specific window right away in all the ways you can with windows 7. at least not in the old build i used.
Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better?
Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.
Obviously. Nothing you said is helpful to the OP or helps to support the post I replied to. Not to mention, Windows has numerous windowing or window tiling managers [0]; the Linux elitism is not helpful, especially when grossly misinformed.
> Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better?
Try XMonad on Linux. It does allow me to manage my windows better.
I feel like a broken record. The OP uses windows. The comment I replied to insists Windows is garbage and the OP should jump ship, because there's no hope for Windows managing windows. It's ludicrous to suggest Linux to OP, when he simply wants to manage his PuTTY windows differently (Re: his WM technically already manages the windows [grouping], but it's not what he wants); it is made more ludicrous by the fact that there exist tiling window managers for Windows -- see my other comments to SIBLINGS of your's.
Not that a tiling manager is going to be of ANY help in OP's case; I really doubt the auto-scaling and tiling of his windows is what is making him struggle with dozens of PuTTY instances.
You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.
I thought it'd be obvious I was speaking generally; suggesting "any WM" to the OP is still not helpful. Windows has just as many "any WM," so I really don't know your point.
No. It doesn't. Windows has one GUI and various themes for it; Ubuntu has multiple GUIs. That's what a WM is in Linux terms: A whole new GUI that sits on top of very basic graphical primitives which don't determine anything about how a GUI looks or works.
It's $99, but I've easily saved 1000x that amount by being able to quickly script shell interactions that don't easily lend themselves to the regular scripting tools like 'expect'.
I think the best example was where a distributed cache cluster was dirtied during a deployment. Dumping the entire 100TB+ of good data was not an option, it would have taken days to warm back up. The cache admin tool had a menu system and wouldn't buffer input, so I couldn't just dump a buffer of commands into it and wait for it to finish.
I was able to lookup recently accessed DB rows in SSH tab #1, compare them to the cache in tab #2, and invalidate in another in tab #3. Problem solved in <20 minutes. We eventually built an app to invalidate dirty cached results, but that took about a week to do it the right way.