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Re: [sshmenu] Clear text entry SSH Menu applet

[Giancarlo P. <gc...@gm...>]

Hi Grant,

thank you for your help and thank you for you great work: I love SSHMenu.

Bye.
Giancarlo

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Grant McLean <gr...@mc...> wrote:

> Hi Giancarlo
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:43 +0200, Giancarlo Pioli wrote:
> > I have installed SSH Men applet on Ubuntu 10.04. I have enabled the
> > text entry field and now I have some strings that are not registered
> > hostnames (these strings have white background while the hostnames
> > have a darker background).
> > I have those entries because, while using the text field as a shortcut
> > for connecting, I have entered a portion of the hostname, I have
> > pressed the left arrow (instead of the down arrow) and the I have
> > pressed enter.
>
> The 'history' of hosts you have connected to via the text entry is
> maintained in a plain text file in your home directory called
> '.sshmenu_history'.
>
> You can edit the file with gedit:
>
>  gedit ~/.sshmenu_history
>
> delete the unwanted lines and save the file.
>
> My longer term plan is to have the auto complete list respond to the
> delete key.
>
> Cheers
> Grant
>
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Re: [sshmenu] Clear text entry SSH Menu applet

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi Giancarlo

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:43 +0200, Giancarlo Pioli wrote:
> I have installed SSH Men applet on Ubuntu 10.04. I have enabled the
> text entry field and now I have some strings that are not registered
> hostnames (these strings have white background while the hostnames
> have a darker background).
> I have those entries because, while using the text field as a shortcut
> for connecting, I have entered a portion of the hostname, I have
> pressed the left arrow (instead of the down arrow) and the I have
> pressed enter.

The 'history' of hosts you have connected to via the text entry is
maintained in a plain text file in your home directory called
'.sshmenu_history'.

You can edit the file with gedit:

  gedit ~/.sshmenu_history

delete the unwanted lines and save the file.

My longer term plan is to have the auto complete list respond to the
delete key.

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] Clear text entry SSH Menu applet

[Giancarlo P. <gc...@gm...>]

Hello,

I have installed SSH Men applet on Ubuntu 10.04. I have enabled the text
entry field and now I have some strings that are not registered hostnames
(these strings have white background while the hostnames have a darker
background).
I have those entries because, while using the text field as a shortcut for
connecting, I have entered a portion of the hostname, I have pressed the
left arrow (instead of the down arrow) and the I have pressed enter.
Anyone else has had this problem? Is there someone that could help me to
remove those entries?
Thank you.

Bye.
Giancarlo

Re: [sshmenu] Multi config files

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:03 +0100, cedric delaunay wrote:
> Hi sshmenu users,
> I'm new user of this this well developped software and I would like now 
> automate the configuration from the gnome's applet.
> The goal is to have a main config file calling others configs files 
> which are written by a script.
> 
> I have seen in changelog of version 3.13  that Grant added "multiple 
> config files" functionality but I didn't find the way to use it.
> Did somebody tried this ? and succeed ;) ?

The multiple config file support doesn't do what you're looking for.  It
also doesn't really apply to the panel applet version of SSHMenu.  If
you use the standalone 'sshmenu' program, you can run multiple instances
and give each one a different config file using the --config-file
command line option (see: man sshmenu).

It would be possible to add support for merging multiple config files on
the fly, by overriding the SSHMenu::Config class - but it would be
fairly complicated.

A simpler solution would be to have a separate script that reads in the
current SSHMenu config (which is just YAML) merges in some config data
from an alternative source and saves out the result as YAML.

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] Multi config files

[cedric d. <ced...@fr...>]

Hi sshmenu users,
I'm new user of this this well developped software and I would like now 
automate the configuration from the gnome's applet.
The goal is to have a main config file calling others configs files 
which are written by a script.

I have seen in changelog of version 3.13  that Grant added "multiple 
config files" functionality but I didn't find the way to use it.
Did somebody tried this ? and succeed ;) ?

Thanks for help.

[sshmenu] Hack ssh-menu

[<ste...@fr...>]

Hello,

I have sent a mail last month about a request to use a "socks" with sshmenu.
I have hacked rb script to do that !
I sent to you my hack to understand my request. search #SBRE to see all my
modification

Regards

[sshmenu] Announce: 3.18

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi All

I've just released Version 3.18 of SSHMenu. The changelog for this
release:

 * add support for initiating connections from command-line
 * implement a bash_completion recipe
 * fix warnings about @display not initialized
 * make command-line option parsing errors go to STDERR only

More detail here:

http://grantmclean.vox.com/library/post/sshmenu-318-add-command-line-support.html

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] Announce: Release 3.17

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi All

I've just released Version 3.17 of SSHMenu. The changelog for this
release:

 * fix moving sub-menus with up/down buttons (Tracker ID 2581842
   reported by Harald Boehmecke)
 * re-enabled drag-and-drop for reordering menu items if installed
   version of bindings is new enough
 * added optional text entry with auto complete next to menu button
 * put Preferences and About options on right-click menu if supported
   by installed Ruby bindings

The third item doesn't sound like much but it's actually kind of cool.
For a more in-depth description and screenshots see this blog post:

http://grantmclean.vox.com/library/post/sshmenu-317-adds-a-command-line-with-auto-completion.html

Unfortunately the new features require version 0.19 of the Ruby-GTK
bindings - which is probably newer than what's in your current desktop
distro.  The new bindings version has made it into Debian unstable but
if you want to try out the new features on any other distro then for now
you'll need to build your own bindings too.

Cheers
Grant

Re: [sshmenu] Port Forwarding

[Eric B. <eri...@wa...>]

On 07/30/2009 09:39 AM, Eric Bangerter wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I really enjoy your tool, but I don't know how to forward local port to
> destination like -L5900:server:5900 .
> Thhanks you for your support
>
> Best Regards

Dear all,
I found the good syntax, sorry for the inconvenience.
Rgds

[sshmenu] Port Forwarding

[Eric B. <eri...@wa...>]

Dear all,

I really enjoy your tool, but I don't know how to forward local port to 
destination like -L5900:server:5900 .
Thhanks you for your support

Best Regards

Re: [sshmenu] (no subject)

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 11:58 +0200, ste...@fr... wrote:
> 
> I want to used your application.
> I have a little problem on it: i must used tsock to connect to my server.
> So my question is: Who can i launch tsock before ssh command ?
> in xterm, i must write :
> tsocks -on;sleep 5;ssh ai...@to...

I'm not familiar with tsocks but you should be able to achieve what you
want easily by overriding the 'ssh_command' method in the SSHMenu::App
class.  That might sound hard if you've never programmed in Ruby, but
there are a number of resources on the web site that you can use to
reach a solution.

Nicholas Roman wrote an article that described how to customise SSHMenu
to use a different terminal program (instead of gnome-terminal):

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/terminator.html

In his example, he overrode the 'build_window_command' method but you
would want to override 'ssh_command'.  Normally this method just returns
'ssh' but if you simply changed it to return 'tsocks-ssh' you could
write a tsocks-ssh shell script that does what you need.


Do all your SSH connections need to use tsocks?  If not, you might want
to add a checkbox to the host dialog.  There's an article on the web
site that describes doing that to allow some connections to use telnet
and some to use SSH:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/sshtelnetmenu.html


To debug your customisations, you can run the /usr/bin/sshmenu-gnome
command - that will be easier that restarting the applet.  Once you have
your customisations working in the standalone menu program you can just
log out and back in to have the applet pick up the new code (or remove
the applet from the panel and add it again).

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] (no subject)

[<ste...@fr...>]

I want to used your application.
I have a little problem on it: i must used tsock to connect to my server.
So my question is: Who can i launch tsock before ssh command ?
in xterm, i must write :
tsocks -on;sleep 5;ssh ai...@to...

An you help me ?

Regards

Re: [sshmenu] gnome-terminal tabs

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi Christopher

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:44 -0400, Christopher J. Wells wrote:
> gnome-terminal supports tabs, which is pretty awesome.  So, is it
> possible to send the sshmenu commands to all open in new tabs - so I
> could have one tabbed window with all the ssh sessions I open through
> sshmenu?

As far as I know, there is no way to programmatically open a new tab in
an existing gnome-terminal window.

The post you linked to works around this by feeding a Ctrl-Shift-T
keystroke into the first gnome-terminal window it finds.  While it's an
interesting curiosity it's not a robust enough solution to make it into
the mainline SSHMenu release.

> I see that there doesn't quite seem to be a way, though the --tab
> option might work.  What command is sshmenu actually executing -- does
> it call gnome-terminal directly, or does it call SSH and let the WM
> open it however it wants?

SSHMenu invokes gnome-terminal directly but it's easy for you to
override that behaviour (without editing the SSHMenu code).  This page
on the project web site outlines how to go about it:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/dev/hackers_guide.html

The 'articles' section also includes a couple of case studies:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/

I think the right solution is for gnome-terminal to implement a DBUS
API.

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] gnome-terminal tabs

[Christopher J. W. <chr...@gm...>]

gnome-terminal supports tabs, which is pretty awesome.  So, is it possible
to send the sshmenu commands to all open in new tabs - so I could have one
tabbed window with all the ssh sessions I open through sshmenu?  I see an
option to allow "open all as tabs," so perhaps there's some functionality
that gets us close -- bear in mind I want to still open ssh sessions one at
a time, but I'd like them to just keep appending into the same window as a
new tab.

I see that there doesn't *quite* seem to be a way, though the --tab option
might work.  What command is sshmenu actually executing -- does it call
gnome-terminal directly, or does it call SSH and let the WM open it however
it wants?  Is there a way to potentially allow the user to use a script to
connect to ssh rather than the command its using (or is there a script I can
customize)?

Refer to: http://gleamynode.net/articles/2236/

--
Christopher J. Wells

Re: [sshmenu] Using terminator instead of gnome-terminal

[nicolas r. <gni...@gm...>]

Hello Tarlak,

I made a branch of terminator, available on Launchpad, referenced at
the end ot the article. This branch allows to "clone" terminal. It
means, when you split the terminal,it reconnects you to the current
host.
BUT if you start more than 1 sshmenu session, each gets it own window...

HTH,

Nicolas

2009/1/16 Tarlak Desaydrone <tar...@gm...>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I use sshmenu from several month now and i read yesterday that it can be use
> with terminator, good point.
>
> So i made the modification for my sshmenu, and i have one question, when i
> launch one ssh session the terminator terminal open, when i launch a second
> ssh session i got a new window of terminator :( Is there a solution to have
> one terminator window that split when a new ssh session is started ??
>
> Thanks for your response and your work
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[sshmenu] Using terminator instead of gnome-terminal

[Tarlak D. <tar...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I use sshmenu from several month now and i read yesterday that it can be use
with terminator, good point.

So i made the modification for my sshmenu, and i have one question, when i
launch one ssh session the terminator terminal open, when i launch a second
ssh session i got a new window of terminator :( Is there a solution to have
one terminator window that split when a new ssh session is started ??

Thanks for your response and your work

Re: [sshmenu] Announce: 3.16 release of SSHMenu

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 08:18 -0500, Christopher J. Wells wrote:
> I like doing things the hard way - so I followed the link to:
> http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-all/
> 
> from "If you like doing things the hard way, you can go and grab the
> latest .deb files directly from here."
> 
> But it tells me a 403 error was encountered.

Hmmm it looks like directory indexes were disabled in the recent
SourceForge web hosting changes.  So the files you needed were there -
you just couldn't see them.  I've turned directory indexes back on again
so the link is working now.

Thanks
Grant

Re: [sshmenu] Announce: 3.16 release of SSHMenu

[Christopher J. W. <chr...@gm...>]

I like doing things the hard way - so I followed the link to:
http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-all/

from "If you like doing things the hard way, you can go and grab the latest
.deb files directly from
here<http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-all/>
."

But it tells me a 403 error was encountered.
--
Christopher J. Wells


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Grant McLean <gr...@mc...> wrote:

> Hi Folks
>
> I've just uploaded a new release of SSHMenu.  It doesn't contain
> anything exciting, the main difference is that drag-n-drop for
> reordering menu items has been disabled.  A number of users discovered
> that if they accidentally dropped an item on itself, the application
> would hang and use up all CPU (Tracker ID 2129798).  I'll reenable it in
> a future release if I can fix the problem.
>
> I also added an option to hide the applet border to make it look less
> like a button and more like a menu (Tracker ID 1998529).
>
> The changelog entries for this release are:
>
> 3.16  15-Jan-2009
>  * added --version option
>  * added --debug option
>  * fixed filename in README
>  * added option to hide border of main 'button' widget
>  * disabled buggy drag-and-drop for reordering menu items (Tracker
>    ID 2129798)
>
> You can download the tarball from here:
>
>  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196084
>
> The .debs are also up on the web site and can be installed as per the
> instructions here:
>
>  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/download/deb_repo.html
>
>
> I should also mention that the articles section of the web site now
> includes Nicolas Roman's article on hacking SSHMenu to use Terminator
> instead of Gnome-Terminal:
>
>  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/terminator.html
>
> If you've got any cool hacks with SSHMenu that you'd like to share, I'm
> happy to publish submitted articles or links.
>
> Regards
> Grant
>
>
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[sshmenu] Announce: 3.16 release of SSHMenu

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi Folks

I've just uploaded a new release of SSHMenu.  It doesn't contain
anything exciting, the main difference is that drag-n-drop for
reordering menu items has been disabled.  A number of users discovered
that if they accidentally dropped an item on itself, the application
would hang and use up all CPU (Tracker ID 2129798).  I'll reenable it in
a future release if I can fix the problem.

I also added an option to hide the applet border to make it look less
like a button and more like a menu (Tracker ID 1998529).

The changelog entries for this release are:

3.16  15-Jan-2009
  * added --version option
  * added --debug option
  * fixed filename in README
  * added option to hide border of main 'button' widget
  * disabled buggy drag-and-drop for reordering menu items (Tracker
    ID 2129798)

You can download the tarball from here:

  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196084

The .debs are also up on the web site and can be installed as per the
instructions here:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/download/deb_repo.html


I should also mention that the articles section of the web site now
includes Nicolas Roman's article on hacking SSHMenu to use Terminator
instead of Gnome-Terminal:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/terminator.html

If you've got any cool hacks with SSHMenu that you'd like to share, I'm
happy to publish submitted articles or links.

Regards
Grant

Re: [sshmenu] Using terminator instead of gnome-terminal

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 16:37 +0100, nicolas roman wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm a big fan of sshmenu and I recently discovered terminator
> (https://launchpad.net/terminator). I have made some customization to
> sshmenu, based on the "add telnet" story, to have it use terminator
> instead of gnome-terminal. and it looks like it works quite fine. It's
> no big deal, but mixing sshmenu and terminator saves me lot of time.

Sounds interesting.

> I was wondering if anybody was interested by this. If so, is there a
> way to put it on sshmenu website, as an article or something ?

Sure.  If you want to write something up and email it to me, I'd be
happy to post it in the Articles section of the web site.

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] Using terminator instead of gnome-terminal

[nicolas r. <gni...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

I'm a big fan of sshmenu and I recently discovered terminator
(https://launchpad.net/terminator). I have made some customization to
sshmenu, based on the "add telnet" story, to have it use terminator
instead of gnome-terminal. and it looks like it works quite fine. It's
no big deal, but mixing sshmenu and terminator saves me lot of time.

I was wondering if anybody was interested by this. If so, is there a
way to put it on sshmenu website, as an article or something ?

Thanks in advance,

Nicolas

Re: [sshmenu] Sort Menu?

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:46 -0400, James Eicholz wrote:
> is there anyway to sort the list of connections alphabetically outside
> of moving the entires around in the list manually yourself?

There isn't any way to do that using the SSHMenu preferences dialog, but
the config is stored in a plain text (YAML) file so you can modify that
using any tools you want.

I'd strongly recommend making a backup of the .sshmenu file in your home
directory, eg: with this command:

  cp ~/.sshmenu ~/.sshmenu.backup

then you could run a command like this:

  ruby -r yaml -e 'm = YAML.load_file(ARGV[0]); 
  m["items"].sort!{|a,b| %Q(#{a["title"]}) <=> %Q(#{b["{title"]}) }; 
  puts m.to_yaml' ~/.sshmenu.backup > ~/.sshmenu

That should sort the top-level entries but not submenus.

If you modify ~/.sshmenu directly, there's no need to restart the
applet.  Any changes should be reflected immediately when you click to
display the menu.

If your modifications screw up the menu you can put back the original
like this:

  cp ~/.sshmenu.backup ~/.sshmenu

Cheers
Grant

[sshmenu] Sort Menu?

[James E. <ei...@gm...>]

is there anyway to sort the list of connections alphabetically outside
of moving the entires around in the list manually yourself?

Re: [sshmenu] Antw: Re: problems with integrating theapplet in thepanel on opensuse-10.2

[Stephan H. <Ste...@La...>]

Thanks a lot! Now it works! After starting the sshmenu-applet from the command line there was an error that libpanel2 was missing. After installing that and some other dependend ruby libraries now it workes.

Cheers,
Stephan

>>> Grant McLean <gr...@mc...> schrieb am Di 29 Jul 2008 um 23:00 in
Nachricht <121...@pu...>:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:53 +0200, Stephan Hendl wrote:
>> Just I've take the clock applet, changed everything but the same error
>> still exists ;-( Unfortunately I'm not familiar with ruby and so I
>> look into the code like someone who doesn't what he's doing. Starting
>> the program from the shell works fine but I looked for the possiblity
>> to start it from the panel preferably.
> 
> The standalone program and the applet use the same code with one minor
> difference.  The applet wrapper script (called 'sshmenu-applet') uses an
> extra Ruby library called panelapplet2 - do you have this library
> installed?
> 
> In Debian the package is called libpanel-applet2-ruby.
> 
>> Would you mind explaining the code in the sshmenu-applet? Maybe there
>> are differences betwenn gnome on SuSE and Ubuntu. We have installed
>> gnome-2.16 (opensuse 10.2).
> 
> I don't think it's a GNOME version problem.  My development environment
> was GNOME 2.14 on Ubuntu Dapper.  I have just recently upgraded to
> Ubuntu Hardy which is running (I think) 2.22.
> 
> There is a procedure you can use for debugging applets.
> 
> 1. use 'ps' to check that there are no sshmenu-applet processes
>    running
> 
> 2. from a command shell, run the applet wrapper script directly,
>    in my case the path would be:
> 
>     /usr/lib/gnome-panel/sshmenu-applet
> 
>    at this point, the program should appear to 'hang' - no output
>    should appear in your command window and no applet should 
>    appear on the GNOME panel.  If the program dies with an error,
>    that problem must be resolved first
> 
> 3. launch GNOME's 'Add to Panel' dialog by right clicking on the 
>    panel and selecting from the menu
> 
> 4. select SSHMenu from the list of available applets and add it
>    to your panel (either with the '+' button or by dragging it
>    to the panel
> 
>    at this point, the applet should appear in the panel, if it
>    does not, there should be an error message displayed in the
>    terminal window where you started the applet wrapper script
> 
> Try that and let us know how you get on.
> 
> Regards
> Grant
> 
> 
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Re: [sshmenu] Antw: Re: problems with integrating the applet in thepanel on opensuse-10.2

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:53 +0200, Stephan Hendl wrote:
> Just I've take the clock applet, changed everything but the same error
> still exists ;-( Unfortunately I'm not familiar with ruby and so I
> look into the code like someone who doesn't what he's doing. Starting
> the program from the shell works fine but I looked for the possiblity
> to start it from the panel preferably.

The standalone program and the applet use the same code with one minor
difference.  The applet wrapper script (called 'sshmenu-applet') uses an
extra Ruby library called panelapplet2 - do you have this library
installed?

In Debian the package is called libpanel-applet2-ruby.

> Would you mind explaining the code in the sshmenu-applet? Maybe there
> are differences betwenn gnome on SuSE and Ubuntu. We have installed
> gnome-2.16 (opensuse 10.2).

I don't think it's a GNOME version problem.  My development environment
was GNOME 2.14 on Ubuntu Dapper.  I have just recently upgraded to
Ubuntu Hardy which is running (I think) 2.22.

There is a procedure you can use for debugging applets.

1. use 'ps' to check that there are no sshmenu-applet processes
   running

2. from a command shell, run the applet wrapper script directly,
   in my case the path would be:

    /usr/lib/gnome-panel/sshmenu-applet

   at this point, the program should appear to 'hang' - no output
   should appear in your command window and no applet should 
   appear on the GNOME panel.  If the program dies with an error,
   that problem must be resolved first

3. launch GNOME's 'Add to Panel' dialog by right clicking on the 
   panel and selecting from the menu

4. select SSHMenu from the list of available applets and add it
   to your panel (either with the '+' button or by dragging it
   to the panel

   at this point, the applet should appear in the panel, if it
   does not, there should be an error message displayed in the
   terminal window where you started the applet wrapper script

Try that and let us know how you get on.

Regards
Grant