Any way to hide certain sessions from the tab bar?
So this post is a question, but if the answer is No, this post is a Feature Request... :)
We have data centers in various parts of the country and we access them via SSH connections. Currently we open an SSH Tunnel directly to an Admin type box and RDP into it. Then from there we RDP into the other servers in that same data center. This required RDPs nested inside other RDP which gets confusing.
What we'd like to do is setup multiple SSH connections so we could go directly to any machine in any data center by tunneling to the proper IP. We've tested this and it works fine. We've also made the RDP connection dependent on the SSH connection so just launching the RDP session launches the SSH connection automatically and this also works fine.
Our problem is that this means that for every machine we RDP into we end up with two tabs in the Tab Bar on the top of the window. One for the SSH and one for the RDP. This leads to a ton of tabs open when we're connected to multiple machines at once.
Is there any way to hide tabs from the top bar while still having them connected since it shows the Green arrow on the left side menu? We've come up with a few ideas.
1) In the properties of each connection it could have a checkbox that says "Show this connection in the tab bar" or something like that. We could then uncheck that box on all our SSH connections and the problem would be solved.
2) There could be a global option for something like: "Hide dependent connections from the Tab bar". This way when we run the RDP and it launches the SSH it could just not show the SSH.
3) When editing the RDP connection, on the VPN/Tunnel/Gateway section, under the Settings tab, there could be a checkbox there that says "Show this connection in the Tab Bar". Unchecking it would then make that connection not show up.
Anyway, please let me know if this is possible currently and if not, please submit this as a feature request.
If any of this isn't clear, please let me know and I can provide more details.
Thanks,
Mike
All Comments (4)
Hi,
It's not supported but I get the point. It's a good idea and I will enter a feature request for that.
David Hervieux
Cool. Thanks.
In the mean time, you can assign a tab page category (bottom of the more tab) to the ssh sessions, and another one to the RDP sessions.
When the sessions are running, you will see buttons above the tabs for each category, this is a filter to only show the tabs that match the filter.
You could click on the "RDP" filter to only show these sessions
Maurice
Ah. That's a great work around. In fact, that will take care of our problem. We'll just tag our SSH ones as SSH and the RDP ones as RDP and then we can just use the RDP tab exclusively.
Thanks!