Changelog

1.5.3 · 2026-10-30

Added

• Reconnect in a tab’s right-click menu (Reconnect all panes for a split tab): ends the sessions and connects them again.
• The status bar shows how fast the active terminal answers: echo is how long typed keys take to come back from the server, draw how long TuxShell takes to show them. Preferences → About → Performance lists recent moments the window was busy and how many terminals draw on the GPU.

Fixed

• Duplicating a host froze the window (the menu stayed open and terminals disappeared). An error in the host form now stays inside the form.
• A copied host no longer says its original’s password is saved.
• When a server shuts down or reboots, its tab closes like after a logout (with Close the tab when you log out on). Failed connections and logins still stay open with Reconnect.
• With many tabs open, terminals could fall back to slow drawing for good. Only the 8 most recently shown terminals keep GPU drawing now, and the others get it back when shown.

1.5.2 · 2026-10-26

Added

• KeePassXC: a host can take its password from the open KeePassXC with a reference like keepassxc:ssh://user@host (Preferences → Security → Connect to KeePassXC, then Use KeePassXC for this host in the host form). TuxShell never sees the database or its master password.

Changed

• When you type ssh in a local shell tab, the file panel says so and offers to open that server as a TuxShell connection (or add it as a host), instead of showing this computer’s files and typing local folders into the remote shell with cd here.

1.5.1 · 2026-10-26

Added

• Duplicate tab (right-click a tab): opens a new connection to the same host, or the same split panes, right next to it.
• After a download in the file panel: Open the file, or Show in folder (the file is selected in your file manager).

Fixed

• The file panel broke on servers whose login files print text (for example “ok” or a banner) for ssh commands: the folder path got that text in front of it, and downloads started with it.

1.5.0 · 2026-10-23

Added

• Saved layouts: save open tabs with their split panes (right-click a tab → Save tab as layout, or Home → Layouts → Save open tabs) and open them again in one go from Home → Layouts or Ctrl+K. One layout can open when TuxShell starts. Panes whose host was deleted are skipped, with a note.
• Proxmox VE in a host’s OS list, with its logo. Imports read “Proxmox” from an OS column too.
• A Detect button next to a host’s operating system. Only when clicked, it reads /etc/os-release through a session that’s already open to the host (it never logs in for this), or else the ssh server’s greeting, which names Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD and Windows.
• Window options in Preferences → General: open the window as you left it (size and maximized), always maximized, or full screen; and keep it on top of other windows (X11 and macOS; Wayland doesn’t let apps do that). The size is kept in window.json next to the settings.
• Remote desktops in their own window can share this computer’s printers and smart card readers, pass USB devices through (beta; picked from a list of what’s plugged in), or open one program instead of the whole desktop (RemoteApp: an alias like ||notepad or a path).
• Import Windows Remote Desktop (.rdp) files, several at once: address, user and domain, screen, sharing, sound, gateway and RemoteApp come along. Their saved passwords are encrypted with the Windows account’s key, so they can’t be read and are left out.
• Remmina imports bring printer and smart card sharing along.

Changed

• The hosts sidebar can be resized: drag the gap between it and the terminals (double-click for the default width, or use ←/→ on it). Its header no longer pushes the New host button against the edge, and “Select” is now an icon button.
• Copy on select is on for new installs: selecting text in a terminal copies it. Existing settings keep their choice (Preferences → General → Copy on select).
• A shortcut can be Shift with a key, such as Shift+Space for Paste, after a warning that it’s easy to press while typing. In text fields such a key still types.

1.4.3 · 2026-10-23

Added

• “New group” in the hosts sidebar (the folder button next to New host) makes an empty group to drag hosts into. A group’s right-click menu can now rename it (another group’s name merges the two) or delete it; its hosts stay, ungrouped.
• task flatpak builds the .flatpak file that comes with each release, and the README explains how to install it.

Fixed

• macOS: 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 opened an empty window. TuxShell starts again.
• macOS: the app and the .dmg showed the icon and artwork of the framework TuxShell is built with. They show TuxShell’s own icon now, also in the macOS 26 style.
• If the app ever fails to start, the window shows what went wrong, with a button to copy the details, instead of staying empty.
• The .flatpak file from GitHub releases checks for updates again. Only a Flathub build leaves updates to Flathub.

1.4.2 · 2026-10-20

Added

• Flatpak support: a .flatpak file comes with each release. In the Flatpak, ssh runs inside the sandbox and local shell tabs, the 1Password CLI and FreeRDP run on your system; updates come from Flathub, so the startup update check is left out. The manifest is in build/flatpak/.

Changed

• Preferences shows where your settings file and recordings are really kept, instead of a fixed path.

1.4.1 · 2026-10-20

Added

• Remmina import brings the connections’ passwords along: those Remmina keeps in the system keyring and those in its own files. They’re saved in your keyring when “Allow saving passwords” is on, like passwords from other imports.
• For hosts you already have, the import can now “Only add their passwords”, which leaves the hosts themselves as they are. It’s the default when the file has passwords to save.
• Shortcuts can be changed: Preferences → Shortcuts → Change, then press the new keys. Each can also be turned off or reset. TuxShell warns when a combo is already used or when the shell uses it too, and keeps Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D and Ctrl+Z for the terminal.
• A tab closes by itself when you log out (exit or logout). If the connection fails or drops, it stays open so you can read why and reconnect. Turn it off in Preferences.

Changed

• On Home, clicking a host card only selects it. Double-click or Enter connects, and the right-click menu (or the pencil on the card) edits it.

Fixed

• After a Remmina import, TuxShell no longer suggests deleting the file because of passwords in plain text (Remmina’s aren’t).

1.4.0 · 2026-10-15

Added

• macOS (beta): one universal app for Apple silicon and Intel (macOS 12 or newer), as a .dmg. It isn’t notarized yet, so the first start needs System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
  • The window keeps macOS’s own close, minimize and zoom buttons, with a standard menu bar.
  • The app’s shortcuts use ⌘ (⌘K quick connect, ⇧⌘L hosts, ⌘C/⌘V in the terminal), so Ctrl stays with the terminal; labels and Preferences → Shortcuts show the ⌘ keys.
  • Files live in ~/Library/Application Support/TuxShell; saved passwords go to the Keychain.
  • Homebrew tools are found (op, sdl-freerdp), and the 1Password SSH agent’s macOS socket is used.

Fixed

• Preferences shows the real settings and recordings folders on each system.

1.3.0 · 2026-10-15

Added

• 1Password: a host can sign in with a 1Password reference (op://Vault/Item/field). When the server asks for the password, TuxShell gets it from 1Password through the op CLI (1Password may ask you to approve). The value is never stored, logged or shown, and it works with Allow saving passwords off. Remote desktops use it in their own window.
  • Check in the host form confirms a reference works.
  • The password box explains when 1Password couldn’t give the password, or when the server refused it.
  • Preferences → Security shows whether the 1Password CLI is installed, with setup steps.
• Use the 1Password SSH agent (Preferences → Security, off by default): TuxShell’s ssh uses the SSH keys in 1Password, also through jump hosts. Hosts whose ~/.ssh/config picks an agent keep it.
• Home: hide the “Found hosts in ~/.ssh/config” reminder with its ×. It comes back only when new hosts appear; hidden hosts are still listed in Import.

Fixed

• Leftover password-channel sockets from runs that didn’t close cleanly are removed at startup.

1.2.1 · 2026-10-15

Fixed

• Typing, switching tabs and resizing the window no longer lag while a terminal prints a lot (logs, builds, top). Output now reaches the screen once per frame instead of in thousands of tiny pieces.
• Changing a setting, such as hiding the hosts panel, no longer redraws every open terminal.
• Maximizing or restoring the window resizes each terminal once, when it settles, instead of on every frame of the animation.

1.2.0 · 2026-10-15

Added

• Remote desktops (RDP): add Windows machines as hosts and open them in their own window (FreeRDP 3) or inside a TuxShell tab (beta, built in, nothing extra to install).
  • Own window: shared folders, copy and paste of text and files, sound and microphone, quality presets, RD Gateway, multiple monitors, an SSH jump host, and readable error messages. Packages recommend FreeRDP.
  • Tab: copy and paste of text and files (drop files on the desktop, or Send files, and save what Windows copied to Downloads), resizing with the tab and Ctrl+Alt+Del. The password is typed each time; shared folders and sound need the own window.
  • Server certificates are pinned on first use, with a clear warning if one changes.
  • Remmina connections import with their RDP settings; RDP hosts are kept in JSON and CSV exports.
• Open tabs in the left panel, above your hosts. With the panel hidden they become a strip of icons. Drag to reorder. Preferences → General → Open tabs switches back to the strip in the title bar.
• Drag host groups, and hosts within a group or into another group, to put them in your own order (also from the right-click menu and with Alt+↑/↓). The order is remembered.
• Import preview: select all or none, and search the list.
• “Don’t ask again” when closing a tab, pane or window with running sessions.

Changed

• “Allow saving passwords” and the startup update check are now on by default for new installs. A password is still saved only when you enter or import one, and the update check only links to the new release. Your existing settings are not changed.
• The saved-password field in the host form sits under the user name.

Fixed

• The hosts list scrollbar no longer covers the group fold arrows.

1.1.9 · 2026-10-14

Added

• Connection history under Home → History: which host, when, for how long and whether it worked, with search and one-click reconnect. Never commands or screen content. Can be turned off or limited in Preferences → General.
• Session recording: start and stop it from the terminal’s right-click menu, or record automatically per profile. Only what the terminal shows is saved, never keystrokes, as standard asciinema files readable only by you. A REC badge shows while recording.
• A player for recordings under History → Recordings, with speed, seeking and long pauses skipped.

1.1.8 · 2026-10-14

Added

• File panel: a right-click menu on files and folders with rename, new folder, delete and permissions. Ctrl+click selects several items. Deleting always asks first.
• Edit a file in your desktop’s default app; when you save it there, upload it from the panel. TuxShell warns before overwriting a file that changed on the server, and keeps its permissions.
• Follow the terminal: the file panel can move with cd in the focused terminal, using the folder the server’s prompt reports.

1.1.7 · 2026-10-14

Added

• Terminal profiles: named sets of terminal settings, made in Preferences → Profiles and chosen per host in the host form. Local tabs and hosts without one use Default.
• Custom colour schemes (all 16 colours plus background, text, cursor and selection).
• A background image per profile, with a shade to keep text readable.
• A pane header colour per profile, for example red for production servers.
• Scrolling options: scroll on output or when typing, mouse wheel speed, scrollbar for new panes.
• Bell options: flash, a bell icon on the pane and tab, and a short sound.
• Run on connect: a command the server runs after login, optionally keeping a shell open.
• What the Backspace and Delete keys send, for older servers.

Changed

• Preferences are grouped into terminal profile settings and app settings.

1.1.6 · 2026-10-14

Added

• Optional saved passwords for people who don’t use keys or 1Password. Turn on “Allow saving passwords” in Preferences → Security (off by default). Passwords are kept only in your system keyring, never in TuxShell’s files, exports or logs, and are handed to ssh privately.
• When a server asks for a password, a password box appears over the terminal, with an option to remember it for that host.
• A saved password can be set, changed or removed in the host form. Home shows which hosts have one.
• Imported CSV/Excel passwords are saved to the keyring when saving passwords is on.

Security

• A saved password is tried only once; if the server refuses it, you’re asked instead.
• Jump host prompts, host key questions and key passphrases still appear in the terminal.

1.1.5 · 2026-10-14

Fixed

• The import window opened empty on some systems (seen on a fresh Fedora install).
• GNOME Software and App Center showed a generic icon and no details for TuxShell. Packages now include AppStream metadata, PNG icons and, for Debian/Ubuntu, the license file.

Changed

• Clearer package description.

1.1.4 · 2026-10-14

Added

• Import hosts from CSV/TSV and Excel (.xlsx) files. Columns are matched from the header row and can be changed; every row is previewed, with problems and already-saved hosts shown.
• Import from MobaXterm, Remmina, PuTTY (~/.putty or a Windows .reg export) and Ansible INI inventories.
• A CSV template to fill in and import, from the import window or Preferences → Hosts.
• Export hosts as TuxShell JSON, CSV or ssh_config, in Preferences → Hosts. Exports never contain passwords and are readable only by you.
• Optional operating system per host, shown as its logo on host badges.
• A bastion in an imported file can be the name of another host; it’s saved as its address.

Changed

• The import window starts with a choice of source. ~/.ssh/config import works as before.
• Preferences has a new Hosts section.

1.1.3 · 2026-10-14

Added

• About page in Preferences with the version, license and project links.
• Check for updates: asks GitHub for the latest release and links to it. An optional check at startup (off by default) shows an Update button in the title bar when a newer version is out.

Fixed

• The dock and app switcher showed a generic icon instead of the TuxShell icon.

1.1.1 · 2026-10-13

Changed

• New app icon: a prompt whose cursor line runs on to two hosts. The title bar logo matches it.

Fixed

• Files did nothing on Home. It now opens on this computer, in your home folder.

1.1.0 · 2026-10-13

Added

• New look for the main window, after the design concepts in docs/design/.
• Home page with hosts, snippets and tunnels. Double-click Hosts to open the host list beside your sessions.
• Host status: ping shows which hosts are up, slow or down (ICMP only, can be turned off).
• Test button in the host form that tries a login and explains what went wrong.
• Snippets: saved commands you paste into a terminal from Ctrl+K.
• Tunnels: local port forwards and SOCKS proxies, bound to 127.0.0.1. Password-only hosts can reuse an open terminal’s connection.
• Quick connect filters (hosts, snippets, tunnels, actions) and open in a split.
• Clipboard history shows which host each clip came from.

Changed

• TuxShell opens on Home instead of a local shell, and closing the last tab returns there.
• Clipboard history opens as a floating panel from a small icon in the title bar.

1.0.0 · 2026-10-13

First release.

Added

• Saved hosts with groups, tags, jump hosts and identity files, stored in SQLite.
• Import from ~/.ssh/config, with usernames optional.
• Username prompt when connecting to a host without a saved user, with an option to save it.
• Bulk select and delete of hosts.
• Quick connect (Ctrl+K) with fuzzy search and user@host:port targets.
• Tabs with close all, close others and close selected.
• Split view with up to four panes per tab; merge, detach and maximize panes.
• Broadcast typing to the panes of a tab, with per-pane exclusion.
• Shared SSH connections (OpenSSH ControlMaster), so splits and the file browser reuse a login.
• File browser panel: browse, download, upload by picker or drag-and-drop.
• Encrypted clipboard history with pinned clips and configurable retention.
• Preferences: fonts, spacing, weights, cursor, colour schemes, scrollback, copy on select, right-click paste, bell, close confirmation and local shell.
• Terminal right-click menu with copy, paste, set title, splits, read only, scrollbar and zoom.
• Ctrl+mouse wheel and Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 text zoom.
• Dark and light themes, or follow the system.
• Packages for Fedora/RHEL (.rpm), Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) and an AppImage.