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Screenshots · TuxShell 1.5.3
See it before you install it
Every screen from the app, with notes on what you're looking at. Drag or use the arrows to turn the ring; click a screen to open it full size.
01 · Home
Your hosts by group
The start page: your hosts by group, with status, search and quick connect.
- Search by name or tag, or type
user@host:portand press Enter - Hosts in
~/.ssh/configyou haven't saved yet, ready to import - Groups work as filters: Jump hosts, PostgreSQL, Proxmox, Windows
- Live status by ping: online, slow or no reply
- The jump host this host goes through
- Hosts that sign in from 1Password; TuxShell never stores its secrets
02 · Split view
The whole cluster in one tab
Open tabs and hosts in the left panel, up to four panes per tab.
- Open tabs sit above your hosts; drag to reorder
- Each pane shows its jump chain:
postgres → bastion-01 → 10.0.0.11 - REC: this pane's output is being recorded (only if you start it)
- Up to four panes; broadcast typing reaches all of them
- Jump to anything: hosts, snippets, tunnels, actions Ctrl K
- Status bar: connection, jump host, tunnels and tabs
03 · Files
Files beside the terminal
Upload, download, rename and edit, on the host of the focused pane.
- The file panel for the focused pane's host Ctrl Shift E
cd heresends the folder to the terminal- Download and open, rename, permissions, edit in your desktop editor
- Drop files to upload, or click to pick them
- The terminal it belongs to; the panel can follow its folder
04 · Remote desktop
Windows hosts next to SSH hosts
Remote desktops (RDP) sit next to your SSH hosts, with an SSH jump host if you need one.
- One host, two ways in: SSH terminal or remote desktop
- Windows domain, if the machine needs one
- Reach the desktop through an SSH jump host
- Windows hosts in their own group on Home
- Save and connect: in its own window with FreeRDP 3, or in a tab beta
05 · Light theme
Dark, light, or follow the system
The whole app follows your choice. Terminals keep their own colour scheme per host.
- Switch the theme from the toolbar, or follow the system
- Pane header colours come from each host's terminal profile
- Per-host colour schemes: Solarized, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, One Dark, Tango…
06 · macOSbeta
On a Mac too
The system's window buttons and ⌘ shortcuts, for Apple silicon and Intel on macOS 12 or newer.
- The system's own window buttons
- App shortcuts use ⌘: ⌘K to jump to anything
- A local shell tab on the Mac, next to your servers
- Uses the ssh that comes with macOS
Try it on your own hosts
Free and open source. Imports your ~/.ssh/config in one go.