Linux – New terminal window (duplicate session) from Putty command line

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Being on Windows and accessing Linux via Putty, is it possible to spawn new terminal (Putty) window from the command line? I.e. to send something to Linux, while responding on which, it initiate new Putty window open?

Similar can be done by Putty menu Duplicate session, but I am interested with command line version.

Best Answer

In Putty Settings > Window > Behavior, you can check one of the boxes to open the system menu on a certain keypress (I personally use ALT-Space).

With this setting in place, you can hit ALT-Space, then type the d key to Duplicate Session. This will allow you to open a new putty window without needing to touch the mouse.

It's not a command line tool, but I find it extremely useful.

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If you're using PuTTY, I'd just duplicate the session.

Remember that PuTTY is a Windows application, and your Linux machine can't make a new Windows application instance.

If you have an X Window server (and you can download XMing XServer for free), you can run a few different terminals, including xterm, gnome-terminal or konsole, etc.

You can also use the same PuTTY window with multiple sessions with screen or tmux.

Windows, Console, ConEmu – How to Duplicate Session in ConEmu

Variant 1

Type in existing cmd prompt

cmd -new_console

and press Enter. Also you may create hotkey/macro for this sequence, for example AppsN -->

print("cmd -new_console\n")

or create cmd-file or doskey alias.

Variant 2

Use menu item Duplicate root.... It will make a copy of your most parent (root) shell of the current tab (where you are calling menu item). Also you may disable duplicate confirmation in the Settings \ Confirmation.

Variant 3

With latest versions (from 140818) you also may use %CD% environment variable within Shell() GuiMacro function. How to set up your shell described here.

Shell("", "cmd", "", "%CD%")

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