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crussh: a modern cssh replacement
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Backstory
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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
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The install process is very simple on most distros:
- Install python2, python-gtk2, and python-vte.
- Run ./crussh.py HOST [HOST ...]
Bugs & TODO
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To see current issues, report problems, and see plans for features,
see the [crussh GitHub issues page](https://github.com/unit3/crussh/issues).
Copyright and License
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crussh is copyright 2012 by Graeme Humphries <graeme@sudo.ca>.
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/).