crussh: a modern cssh replacement ================================= Backstory --------- For anyone who needs to administrate clusters of many machines, [clusterssh](http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/) has long been a fallback for when the rest of your automation tools aren't working. However, cssh has a number of deficiencies in modern environments: - Doesn't play nice with window placement of modern window managers. - Doesn't play nice with modern toolkits' copy and paste behaviour. - Gets a bit screwy when there's more terminals than can fit on-screen. - Doesn't support nice antialiased fonts. crussh aims to be a simple replacement for cssh that corrects these problems. It does so with the following features: - Uses a single window to hold multiple terminals. - Intelligently tiles terminals to fit available window size. - Scrolls available terminals when they don't all fit in-window. - Never resizes a terminal smaller than 80x24 characters. - Uses GTK and the VTE widget to provide modern, anti-aliased terminals. Install ------- The install process is very simple on most distros: - Install python2, python-gtk2, and python-vte. - Clone and symlink to your bin dir. ```bash git clone https://github.com/nergdron/crussh.git ln -s crussh/crussh.py ~/bin/crussh ``` - Run "crussh HOST [HOST ...]" Usage Tips ---------- Doing a clustered paste isn't completely obvious. The following methods will work: - middle click or shift-insert to paste the X11 selection buffer. - control-shift-v to paste the GTK/GNOME clipboard. Bugs & TODO ----------- To see current issues, report problems, and see plans for features, see the [crussh GitHub issues page](https://github.com/nergdron/crussh/issues). Copyright and License --------------------- crussh is copyright 2012 by Graeme Nordgren . This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see the [GNU licenses page](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).