Desktop: Tabbed Interface 💻 Desktop
Real browser-style tabs across one or many windows. Real keyboard shortcuts.
Desktop is in active development. See tabssh/desktop for current status — some shortcuts below are wired, others are planned.
🪟 Multi-Window Tabs
- Each window has its own tab strip.
- Ctrl+N opens a new window; useful for separating prod / staging visually onto different displays.
- Tabs can be dragged between windows (planned).
- Closing the last tab in a window doesn't kill TabSSH — the window collapses to the tray.
⌨️ Tab Shortcuts
- Ctrl+T — new tab (opens Quick Connect dialog)
- Ctrl+W — close current tab
- Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab — cycle forward / backward
- Ctrl+1..9 — jump to tab N
- Ctrl+Shift+T — reopen the last closed tab
🎯 Command Palette & Switchers
- Ctrl+K — command palette: fuzzy-search across saved hosts (from
~/.ssh/config), snippets, identities, workspaces. Hit Enter to launch. - Ctrl+J — quick switcher: only currently-open tabs.
- Ctrl+R — history palette: recent connections with timestamps.
- Same UX as the mobile palettes, with hardware-keyboard ergonomics.
🧷 Workspaces
- Save the current set of open tabs as a named workspace.
- Restore in one click — connections fan out with a small inter-host stagger so you don't slam every host at once.
- Workspaces shared with mobile via the encrypted sync blob (when sync ships on desktop).
📡 Broadcast Input & Cluster Commands
- Pick multiple tabs, type once, send to all.
- Cluster commands: pick hosts from
~/.ssh/config, run a single command, get live result streaming.