Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.

Ion is an awesome minimalist window manager that let’s you get job done without wearing out your mouse. That is right, you can do everything with your keyboard. Throw that cheap mouse away.

Some quick shortcuts:

F2 - open the default terminal
F3 - run a command
Mod1-s - split a frame in half vertically
Mod1-k s - split a frame in half horizontally
Mod1-n - move vertically between frames
Mod1-tab - move horizontally between frames
Mod1-k x - kill the current frame

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If you are a system administrator, there is a good chance that you have hundreds of servers to maintain. It can be quite hard to remember the hostnames of each individual one. On Windows, there are Putty and SecureCRT. Both applications solve this problem really well, as you can save the individual ssh sessions. SecureCRT even allows you to automate the login process for each session.

If you happen to be running GNU/Linux on your workstation, SSHMenu can help out. SSHMenu is a GNOME panel applet that keeps all your regular SSH connections within a single mouse click.

This solution is not as good as SecureCRT for example, but it is free and pretty easy to use.

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