NAME¶
sshmenu - GNOME applet for connecting to hosts using SSH.
DESCRIPTION¶
The SSHMenu applet puts all your most frequently used SSH connections on a handy
menu in your GNOME panel (see below for non-GNOME versions. Click on a host
name to open a new gnome-terminal window with an ssh connection to the
selected host. Set up SSH options (such as port forwarding etc) and select a
gnome terminal profile (for colour schemes, font sizes etc) using the
preferences dialog.
Add the applet to a GNOME panel in the normal way: right click on the panel,
select 'Add to Panel' and then select the SSH Menu Applet from the list.
Configure the applet using the 'Preferences' option on the applet menu.
STANDALONE VERSIONS¶
The SSHMenu application uses the GTK GUI toolkit but is not dependent on the
GNOME desktop environment. Two alternative wrapper scripts are provided:
sshmenu-gnome - provides all the functionality of the SSHMenu applet but in a
standalone application window that could (for example) be swallowed into the
panel of an alternative desktop environment.
sshmenu - provides similar functionality to sshmenu-gnome, but without any GNOME
dependencies. Notably, xterm is used instead of gnome-terminal.
The Hacker's Guide (
http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/dev/hackers_guide.html )
describes a number of ways in which the SSHMenu can be further customised.
OPTIONS¶
The applet is not invoked from the command-line however the standalone versions
recognise the following options and can be extended to recognise more:
- -c FILE, --config-file
FILE
- read and write config information to FILE instead of
the default $HOME/.sshmenu
- -d NUM, --debug NUM
- set debug level to NUM (default: 0)
- -s NUM, --socket-window-id
NUM
- use the XEmbed protocol to embed the SSHMenu user interface
in the window identified by NUM instead of creating a new,
top-level window,
- -V, --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR¶
sshmenu-applet was written by Grant McLean <grant@mclean.net.nz>