Putty SSH Client Addons (Colors, tabs and more)

For those of you out there that stare at SSH windows all day long, these PUTTY mods should ease some of your burdens.

Putty Color Schemes / Themes:

I seem to spend inordinate amounts of my time working inside a remote SSH tunnel on a daily basis. And nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default dark-blue/green/red colors against a black background in PuTTY. This really helps make your life much more legible.

Putty Connection Manager

PuTTYCM gives a nice feature to arrange several PuTTY sessions in tabs .

PuTTYtray

Using PuTTYtray, you can minimize the PuTTY window to the system tray on windows. By default, original PuTTY stores the session information in the registry. This is painful, when you want to transfer PuTTY sessions from one laptop to another. In PuTTYtray, there is an additional radio button “Sessions from file” as shown below, that will let you store session information in a file.