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A session is a live SSH connection to a host, shown in a full terminal with its own PTY. Termique also runs local shells on your computer in the same view.

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Open a session

Connect to a host from the hosts list, the host’s detail page, a group, or the command palette. See Connect. Open sessions are listed under Sessions in the sidebar, in the order you opened them. Each connect opens a new session, so two sessions to the same host are labelled web-prod-01 and web-prod-01 (2). Click a session to switch to it. A dot shows its status.
Terminal session with the session header, Terminal and Files switch, and split buttons

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Open a local shell

Click the New local shell button (+) next to Sessions in the sidebar. The hosts list also offers Open local shell while you have no hosts. When a local shell exits, the pane shows Shell exited. Click Restart shell to start a new one in the same pane.

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The session header

Each session has a header above the terminal:
  • Session name: click it to see the Address, the jump host chain (Via), the Group, how long it has been Connected, and whether the Command log is on. Open host details goes to the host’s page.
  • Run a snippet: opens the snippet palette.
  • Forward a port: adds a local port forward for this host.
  • Terminal / Files: switches between the shell and the SFTP file browser for this session.
  • Split right and Split down: see Split panes.
  • Close session.

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Session status

Termique does not reconnect a dropped session on its own. Use Reconnect to open it again. If the server’s host key or the host’s address changed, the session is blocked before anything is sent. See Host key and address checks.

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Split panes

A session tab can hold up to 4 panes, each with its own session.
  • Click Split right or Split down in the header, then pick the host to open in the new pane. Shortcuts: ⌘D / ⌘⇧D on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+D / Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows and Linux.
  • Drag a session from the sidebar onto a pane to merge it into that tab as a new pane. Only single-pane sessions can be merged.
  • Drag a pane’s header onto another pane to swap their positions.
  • Drag the divider between panes to resize them.
  • Each pane has its own Terminal / Files switch, so one pane can browse files while another runs a shell.
  • Close pane (the x in a pane’s header) closes only that pane.
Closing a tab that holds more than one live pane asks for confirmation, because it disconnects all of them and discards their scrollback.
One session tab split into three panes, two terminals and one Files pane

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Copy and paste

Without a selection, Ctrl+C is sent to the shell as usual. Copy on select copies a mouse selection as soon as you release the button, so a right-click right after pastes it. It is on by default on Windows and Linux and off on macOS. Change it in Settings > Appearance > Terminal. In programs that capture the mouse, such as vim, htop, or tmux with mouse mode, hold Option (macOS) or Shift (Windows and Linux) while you drag to select text. Programs on the server can set your clipboard with OSC 52 (for example tmux set-clipboard or vim over SSH). Termique accepts this only while the terminal has focus, and never lets a program read your clipboard.

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Paste safety

Termique strips control characters from pasted text. If the text spans more than one line, Termique shows the text and asks Paste n lines? first, because each line may run as a command as soon as it is pasted. Click Paste to continue.

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Find in scrollback

Press ⌘F (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+F (Windows and Linux) to open Find in scrollback in the focused pane. If you have a single-line selection, it becomes the search term.
  • Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter to the previous one.
  • Esc closes the search.
Each terminal keeps 5,000 lines of scrollback.

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Font size

The size applies to every pane and ranges from 8px to 28px.

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Keyboard shortcuts

Remap any shortcut in Settings > Shortcuts. In the command palette, type ? to search the shortcuts.

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Resize

Resize the window or the panes. Termique sends the new size to the remote PTY, so full-screen programs redraw at the right dimensions.

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Close a session

Click Close session in the header, hover the session in the sidebar and click its x, or press the close tab shortcut. This disconnects the session and discards its scrollback. The host is not deleted. If you quit Termique with active sessions, it asks you to confirm first.

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Command logging

If command logging is on for a host, Termique records the top-level commands you type at the shell prompt. Output is never recorded. On a shared host with logging on, an eye icon next to the session name reminds you that the owner and everyone the host is shared with can see your commands. See Command logs.

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AI assistant

Connected sessions have the AI assistant one click away, and ⌘I (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows and Linux) opens an inline command suggestion. See AI assistant.