WooSSH

A file manager and terminal for remote hosts over SSH. It looks and behaves like a desktop file manager, but everything it shows lives on the server.

Files

• Two-panel view — two folders side by side, Tab to move between them, and a chooser in each panel header to decide which tab it shows.
• Tabs — as many as you like, each remembering its own folder, selection and history.
• Dense sortable table — sort by any column, filter as you type, and switch to a grid of thumbnails. Long listings stay smooth.
• Multi-select — click, Shift-click for a range, Ctrl-click to add, Ctrl+A for all. Selections survive sorting, filtering and a refresh.
• Full file operations — create, rename, duplicate, move, delete, change permissions.
• Copy and paste — Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, with conflicts reported before anything is overwritten: skip or replace, your choice.
• Drag and drop upload — drop files or whole folders onto a panel, and the folder structure is recreated on the server.
• Folder sizes on demand — measure a folder and everything under it in one request.
• Archives — pack any selection into zip, tar or tar.gz, and unpack one into the folder you choose. Works even on a host with no archiver installed.
• Search — recursive search from the current folder, with hits shown by their location.
• File preview — text, images, and metadata, without downloading anything.
• Open and edit locally — open a remote file in whatever application this computer uses for it, and send the changes back when you save.
• Inspect — size, permissions, owner, timestamps and path for whatever is selected, in a panel you can drag to the width you want.

Transfers

• A queue with live progress, speed, ETA and the ability to cancel or retry.
• Resumable downloads — an interrupted transfer continues from where it stopped instead of starting again.
• Between two hosts — copy or move straight from one server to another, without dragging the data through your own machine.
• Speed limit and a cap on how many transfers run at once.

Terminal

• A real PTY — colours, cursor keys, Ctrl+C, interactive programs.
• Several shells at once, each in its own tab, opened in the folder you are looking at.
• Search inside the scrollback, and copy the output.

Hosts

• Saved hosts with your own names and colour tags, so prod-db reads better than an address.
• Double-click to connect, using the credential already stored for that host.
• Credentials in the system keychain — on Windows they are sealed by DPAPI, and they are never sent back to the interface.
• Host keys pinned on first trust, with a manager for reviewing and forgetting them. A key that changes is refused rather than accepted quietly.
• Connection diagnostics — one report showing what the host can and cannot do, for when something does not work and the reason is not obvious.

Monitoring and tools

• Server status — uptime, load, memory, swap and disk usage, with the figures that are unavailable explained rather than left blank.
• Live vitals in the status bar, refreshed while you are connected.
• Ping and traceroute from this computer to a host — no connection needed, so it works precisely when connecting does not.
• Log file for the desktop build, so a problem can be reported with evidence.

Interface

• Command palette — Ctrl+K reaches every action by name.
• Dark and light themes, and full English and Russian localisation.
• Keyboard-first — arrow keys walk the listing, Enter opens, F2 renames, Delete removes, Tab moves between panels.
• Resizable everything — sidebar, inspector and both panels.