Tabbed PuTTY

A feature that many people would like to see in PuTTY is tabs. One solution that brings tabs to PuTTY is PuttyTabs. PuttyTabs is an open source project that brings you a tabbed PuTTY, however, it might not be tabs exactly as you know or like them, but still it provides a great feature that has been missing in PuTTY. And until tabs are natively integrated into PuTTY a program like PuttyTabs is a perfect solution.
You can read more on PuttyTabs here.

For an open source alternative to PuTTY that has tabs, please check out Poderosa.

Tags: tabs tabbed putty tips-and-tricks open-source

Published: September 13, 2006

April 25, 2008 Anonymous wrote:

September 18, 2008 mross wrote:

I agree. It's not perfect, intuitive, or consistent. It's behaviour seems a bit like the mac os top bar, and is similar to the old kicker panel in kde < 3.5. But, as you said, until tabs are natively supported in in putty, it works well enough.

September 19, 2008 Diederick wrote:

I use wintabber with putty without any problems. It's a window manager for putty, cygwin and others. In the end you get a window with putty sessions as tabs. You can also change the titles and icons.

January 22, 2009 Anonymous wrote:

but wintabber is not free, well it is free for everythign other than putty, nice!

May 6, 2009 How I Shed T h i r t y P o u n d s in Only a Month wrote:

Hi, interesting post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for sharing. I'll likely be subscribing to your posts. Keep up great writing

June 11, 2009 Krusty the Klown wrote:

I tawt I taw a putty tab... Try PuTTY Connection Manager (puttycm.free.fr) for tabbed PuTTY. Another alternative is Poderosa (www.poderosa.org), which is natively tabbed, open source and works quite well.

June 17, 2009 Anonymous wrote:

Unfortunately putty connection manager does not work with
windows 7... :(

July 23, 2009 Anonymous wrote:

are you sure?
it works in my win 7 :S

September 15, 2009 neyz wrote:

here it doesn't work either (win7 x64) i keep on getting an error when i click the bookmarks or anything.

September 18, 2009 Anonymous wrote:

my didn't work either

February 11, 2010 Amol wrote:

I used to use PuttyCM for awhile, but then stopped using cua the old version had a bug, a memory leak or something. It would eat up lot of memory and eventually crash. I tried the newer version on XP, it keeps on crashing.
I used to use Wintabber, but wintabber no longer works on my work machine, because I dont have Admin Access on it. So, I'm stuck with old fashioned putty, might try puttytabs.

May 20, 2010 prasad wrote:

poderosa seems to be great software, but it seems from website that nobody is taking care of it. the website was modified on 2006 last time.

how sad ! I am using Poderosa now and its great substitute for what we can call to "Tabbed Putty"

thanx

January 1, 2011 JungleBill wrote:

KiTTY is a decent fork of PuTTY. However it does not support tabs (yet).

January 20, 2011 Anonymous wrote:

I'm using mRemoteNG. Seems to be good.

June 15, 2011 Anonymous wrote:

tried mRemoteNG. So far seems good!!