I generally prefer SSH’ing to hosts from the CLI (Command Line Interface) though there are times when a GUI is preferable, especially when there’s a variety of settings specific to each session that might be desired.

SSHMenu is much like Putty, in that you can set up individual address book style destinations to SSH into, and save settings for each. While scripting them from the CLI and applying a chmod +x, I can see the benefit of using a centralized GUI.

From the site:

Each menu option will open an SSH session in a new terminal window. You can organise groups of hosts with separator bars or sub-menus. You can even open all the connections on a submenu (in separate windows or tabs) with one click.

Here’s a killer feature: imagine if every time you connected to a production server the terminal window had a red-tinted background, to remind you to tread carefully. Using terminal profiles, SSHMenu allows you to specify colours, fonts, transparency and a variety of other settings on a per-connection basis. You can even set window size and position.

It also leverages Gnome terminal profiles, so you can set up unique profiles to specify transparency, text color and background to remind you of which SSH Host you’re in. It’s written in Ruby, so once you add the source to your /etc/apt/sources.list you’ll need to sudo apt-get update, and import their GPG keys, and re-update again, then install.

Sources: Linux.com, SSHMenu.

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