Gnome Connection Manager

Gnome Connection Manager was adapted from Python 2 to Python 3 to make posible it works on modern Python 3 based Linux Distributions like Debian 10, Linux MX 19, Manjaro, Arch Linux, etc.

Tabbed SSH connection manager for modern GTK+ environments.

• Gnome Connection Manager is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3
• It's designed in Glade and written in python 3, so it just needs PyGObjects to run in any linux environment
• Can store passwords securely for easy access to hosts
• Supports multiple ssh tunnels for each host
• Unlimited vertical/horizontal window splitting. You can have as many visible consoles as you want
• Drag&Drop tabs between consoles
• Connect to multiple hosts with just one click
• Grouping hosts
• Cluster mode. Work on several hosts at the same time
• Customizable shortcuts
• Send custom commands to hosts

Dependencies

Make sure you have installed the following packages (Ubuntu):

• python3-gi (>= 3.0)
• expect
• pycrypto

On Ubuntu and Debian you can install them with the following one-liner:

sudo apt-get install python3-gi python3-crypto expect python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0

Installing

Once you have dependencies installed, you need to clone this repository. Locate a directory where you wanto to install Gnome Connection Manager and run this command on the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/larmedina75/gnome-connection-manager.git

Go to the gnome-connection-manager directory and type this command in shell:

python gnome_connection_manager.py

The application will read your LANG environment variable and load appropriate translation file (if your language is supported), otherwise it will fallback to english.

If you want to start gnome-connection-manager with specific language start it with LANGUAGE parameter followed by language code, like so:

LANGUAGE=de_DE python gnome_connection_manager.py

If you want to run the application from menu/launcher you can create .desktop file in your /home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications directory. Assuming you placed gnome-connection-manager source in directory /home/USERNAME/.gnome-connection-manager/ your .desktop file could look like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Gnome Connection Manager
Comment=A simple ssh connection manager for gnome
GenericName=Connection Manager
Exec=/home/USERNAME/.gnome-connection-manager/gnome_connection_manager.py
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/USERNAME/.gnome-connection-manager/icon.png
Categories=GTK;GNOME;Network;

Replace USERNAME in examples above with your username.

Note about the author

The original author of GCM is Renzo Bertuzzi ([email protected]), this works is a fork from GCM implementation by [email protected] and ported from Python 2 (pyGtk, python-vte) to Python 3 and PyGObjects (GTK+3, GDK 2.6, Vte 2.91) by Luis Armando Medina Avitia ([email protected])