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Tabbed Remote Desktop / VNC Client for Windows
Anybody that works in a multiple server environment knows that it can be annoying to have half a dozen remote desktop windows open at any given point. Thankfully there’s a slick application called Terminals that gives you tabbed remote desktop capabilities.
Not only can you do Remote Desktop, but you can use VNC or even Citrix if you choose, and all within the same tabbed window.
When you first install the application you’ll be prompted for a master password, which is probably a good idea:
You can create a new stored connection of any supported type:
I’m connected to my Kubuntu Linux server box here in this tab…
And also connected to an ancient server at work…
One of the rather cool features is that you can have the terminals window minimize to the system tray.
There’s dozens of other features in this application, including the ability to upload screenshots directly to flickr.
It’s definitely worth a look, although I did have a few problems with it crashing on me. Since it’s in active development, I assume these issues will be worked out over time.
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- Published 11/27/07
I love you men , this is one of the best application ever!!
Sweet
Hey Geek
How do you actually install this app. I downloaded and extracted, and when I ran the terminals.exe I got the error:
The application failed to initialize properly (0×0000135) Click on OK to terminate the application.
I’m running XP Pro SP2. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Peter
Very nice and thanks for the tip. If it would tab my putty session in too it would be perfect.
Thanks for the link to this project I can’t wait to check it out!
Seems to work ok…. had issues with VNC connections terminating the app when you try to send a CTRL+ALT+DELETE once you enter user and pass info it crashes the app, but upon restarting the remote has logged in. running F version.
I like version 1.01, and 1.6f looks impressive! A bit unfinished in the setup dialogs and toolbar handling, but I look forward to using it for vnc.
Thanks for the link, a great app!
Further to my earlier comment, please note that Microsoft’s .NET is required for this app. Please see this link for details: http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=17936
Cheers
Pete
Reverted to 1.01, which does its stuff in a remarkably solid way. The GUI in 1.6f is just too irritatingly flaky (on xp), and the auto-Tags sidebar is too intrusive. It’ll be good, but it needs a little more work.
Ive put allot of work into the more recent releases which allow you to turn on and off some of the ui features (Groups, the tags sidebar), not to mention numerous bug fixes.
Give the newer versions a try.
btw. there is no installer, just download and run terminals.exe. simple as that.
Latest version has a bug – if you have multiple VNC instances on the same server, this client won’t work. It appears to be stuck on port 5900, no matter what port you actually put in.
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Hey Geek
How do you actually install this app. I downloaded and extracted, and when I ran the terminals.exe I got the error:
The application failed to initialize properly (0×0000135) Click on OK to terminate the application.
I’m running XP Pro SP2. Any suggestions?
After creating 8 different groups for more than 200 machines, is that a easy way to list on those that are currently active? Thanks for this wonderful software.
Hello HowToGeek’s,
Just wanted to let everyone know that we just pushed out a Beta of version 2 of the Terminals app. Please download and give it a try!
Thanks.
-Rob