I can now run Gnome Mines on Windows via X11 Forwarding! It’s such a classic I don’t know what Microsoft was thinking by removing that. One of my favorite programs in the world, Minesweeper, no longer comes with Windows 10. Below all I did was open an SSH session to my Linux VM running CrashPlan, ran “CrashPlanDesktop” (which is a graphical program) and it opened up the window locally in Windows. X11 forwarding works out of the box with no setup.

SSH into a server and the left pane shows an SFTP session which automatically follows where I am in the terminal and allows dragging and dropping files back and forth between file explorer! No more having to open up WinSCP just to transfer a quick file.įiles can also be opened directly and edited using a built-in or an external editor.

Integrated SFTP File Transfers on the Terminal

Local Shell (which includes Ubuntu Bash WSL if you have it installed, Powershell, Bash on Windows, normal DOS Prompt).

RDP (yes, it can even manage Windows RDP sessions).

MobaXterm supports a number of protocols: Main screen shows the last 9 sessions for quick access. The start screen is simple and useful… open MobaXterm and start typing a hostname… if you’ve connected to that server before it will auto-complete, if not it creates a new session.Īlong the left is a list of servers which can be organized into folders and the icons can be customized. What I Like About MobaXterm – A Quick Review Start Screen

KiTTY, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG, RoyalTS, SuperPuTTY, XShell6, Bitvise, SmarTTY, Solar-PuTTY, and SecureCRT. I looked at and tried quite a few options.

If I make changes to a saved session in-flight and I don’t remember to save it (such as setting a keepalive) PuTTY forgets it.

I just want to drag and drop files between the terminal and file explorer without having to open another program! I know this is nitpicky on my part, but I don’t really remember all my server hostnames or IP addresses.

List of recent servers I’ve SSHed into for a quick reconnect.

PuTTY is a good program, but it doesn’t do four things for me: As I was downloading PuTTY I thought: there has got to be something better than PuTTY. I had just re-installed Windows 10 to fix an updating issue. I recently switched to MobaXterm Professional from PuTTY.

Mobaxterm transfer files