Desktop: Basic Usage 💻 Desktop

Keyboard-first, multi-window, runs from the shell or the GUI.

Desktop is in active development. Some shortcuts and tray features below are planned but not yet shipped — see tabssh/desktop for current status.

⌨️ Launching Sessions

From the GUI: double-click a host in the sidebar.
From the shell: tabssh user@host opens a new tab in an existing TabSSH window (or starts one if none is running).
From ~/.ssh/config: tabssh prod-web if you have a Host prod-web stanza.
From .desktop files / shortcuts: Exec=tabssh %U with a custom tabssh:// URL handler.

Ctrl+T — new tab (Quick Connect dialog)
Ctrl+W — close current tab
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab — cycle tabs
Ctrl+1..9 — jump to tab N
Ctrl+K — command palette (fuzzy search across saved hosts, snippets, identities)
Ctrl+J — quick switcher (currently-open tabs only)
Ctrl+R — history palette (recent connections)
Ctrl+N — new window
Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V — copy / paste
Ctrl+Plus / Ctrl+Minus / Ctrl+0 — font zoom
Ctrl+Scroll — font zoom by mouse wheel

Icon in the system tray / menu bar with a list of currently-open sessions.
Single-click → focus a tab. Right-click → close, reconnect, open new.
Auto-launch on login optional (per-OS: systemd user unit / launchd / Startup folder).
Closing the last window minimises to tray rather than killing connections.

Desktop uses real OS windows — Ctrl+N opens a new window with its own tab strip.
Tabs can be dragged between windows.
The mobile client's split-view-on-one-screen pattern doesn't exist on desktop because the OS already gives you that.