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Starting SSH Connections Simply with SSHMenu

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 19, 2008

“SSHMenu adds a button to your GNOME panel that displays a
configurable drop-down list of hosts that you have might like to
connect to with SSH.

“SSHMenu is packaged and available in repositories for both
Ubuntu (as sshmenu-gnome) and Fedora (gnome-applet-sshmenu). Other
SSHMenu packages available for both distributions do not include
GNOME support. In those, the button for the SSH menu is started in
its own window and an xterm is started when you wish to connect to
a host with SSH…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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