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6 September 2007

Transparency in a Windows SSH client

We all (or we should all) know about the great and free SSH client for Windows - PuTTy. However, I’m a bit of a eye candy geek, and one thing I truly enjoy about my Linux terminal tool is transparency. I know - it provides no great purpose - but, hey, it looks cool and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside smile_tongue.

There used to be some derivatives/add-ons of PuTTy that provided transparency within the PuTTy client, but they have all fallen by the wayside and don’t seem to be developed any longer. Then I discovered my savior, a PuTTy fork, known as KiTTy.

kitty-ssh
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KiTTy not only provides semi-transparency (it uses the wallpaper as a transparency base), but includes many other requested features of PuTTy…

* The very first requested feature: the sessions list filter.
If you have a great number of sessions to manage, in KiTTY you can organize them into folders. One folder by application, one folder by hostname, or by environment … or whatever you want. A new listbox appears in the configuration box. By selecting a specific folder, you will reduce the number of sessions to print in the selection box.

* The second most requested feature: the KiTTY portability.
KiTTY is fully portable. When leaving the last opened session, the program clean all registry trace. Download this config file and store it int the same directory where KiTTY is, to switch the session saving mode to file (instead of registry). Sessions and host keys are saved into kitty.reg file.

* The third most requested feature: Pre-defined saved commands shortcuts.
The new registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\9bis.com\KiTTY\Commands] allow to define a new “User command” menu. Donwload and run this example file. The new menu is reached by clicking CTRL + right mouse button. Just select “User Command” to enter into it.

My thanks goes out to the author’s of PuTTY and KiTTy. Now get out there and download KiTTy, so the author continues to see the need to support such a great SSH client smile_wink.

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  • Dustbunny
    Thanks!!! This is just what i´m been looking for.. This is great
  • Cyd
    Thanks for your support.
    Cyd
    (the developper of KiTTY soft)
  • doh! no tabs yet... :( oh well, I'll still check it out.
  • No kiddin! that is awesome, thanks so much for pointing me to KiTTy, I've been waiting for something like this for a long time.
  • BEFore
    Windows 2000 and greater supports transparency of any window. I believe one of the utilities to access the feature is called Glass.
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