jorgeegomez / pySSHMenu

a Python/Gtk 3 port of SSHMenu

License

Copyright 2012 Travis Patterson Based on SSHMenu, Copyright 2002-2009 Grant McLean [e-mail] This attribution is not an endorsement for pySSHMenu by the author of or contributors to SSHMenu

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 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

What is it?

SSHMenu is a simple GUI app that provides a menu for initiating SSH connections. Select a host from the menu and up pops a new terminal window containing an SSH session to the selected host.

pySSHMenu is a port of SSHMenu to Python and Gtk 3 that runs as an AppIndicator or StatusIcon rather than as an applet. pySSHMenu reads and writes your old SSHMenu configuration files to make transitioning easy.

Differences Between pySSHMenu and SSHMenu

The biggest difference between pySSHMenu and SSHMenu is that SSHMenu can be run as a stand-alone application that has no Gnome dependencies whereas pySSHMenu is designed to be run solely as an AppIndicator in Gnome. There are some slight feature differences as well:

• pySSHMenu does not have the option to "show text entry next to the menu button." This is something that doesn't make sense in the context of an AppIndicator

• pySSHMenu does not have the ability to "hide button border." Again this doesn't make sense in the context of an AppIndicator

• pySSHMenu does not support tear-off menus. These have been deprecated with no replacement so they were left out

Requirements

pySSHMenu requires that PyYaml be installed because the pySSHMenu configuration file format is yaml.

pySSHMenu also requires Gtk 3.

Installation

1. Install PyYaml if it's not already

2. Download SSHMenu.py

3. Copy SSHMenu.py to /usr/local/bin/SSHMenu

4. chmod 755

5. Launch SSHMenu

6. Optional: add it to the Gnome startup so it starts on login