Windows & tray

On Desktop your sessions aren't locked to a single window. Any terminal tab can live in its own OS window, and the system tray icon keeps every session reachable for as long as DR-Terminal runs.

Detach a session into its own window

Every terminal-backed session — SSH, local shell, serial, telnet — can be popped out into a standalone window. Three ways to do it:

• Click the open-in-new-window button on the session's sidebar entry.
• Drag the session's tab up or down off the tab bar.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+N to detach the active session.

A Commander (see File manager) pops out too, but only via the open-in-new-window button — on its sidebar entry or in its title bar; the tab-drag gesture and the shortcut apply to terminal sessions only.

The classic SFTP browser is the one session type that can't be detached — for file browsing in a separate window, use a Commander instead.

• The detached window is fully independent: its own title bar, its own focus, its own place on screen (or another monitor).
• The session keeps running while detached — detaching never disconnects or restarts it.
• You can detach several sessions at once and arrange them side by side, e.g. to watch two servers at the same time.

Re-dock (bring it back)

Close the detached window to send that session back to the main window's tab strip — that's re-docking.

Closing a detached window is not the same as closing the session. Re-docking only changes where the session is shown; the connection stays alive. To actually end a session, close its tab (the ×) in the main window.

The session context menu

Right-click a session's tab, its sidebar entry or its dashboard card for quick actions:

• Rename — give the session a custom name. It shows in the sidebar, on the dashboard and in the tray; tabs show the shell-set terminal title when there is one, so the custom name appears on the tab only when the shell hasn't set a title or the connection's Use connection name as tab title option is on.
• Open in Commander — SSH sessions (sidebar and dashboard): opens the dual-pane file manager (see File manager) on the same host, starting in the shell's current directory.
• Connection info — SSH sessions: connection details for this session.
• Restart session — close and re-open the connection in the same tab, e.g. after a remote reboot. Offered for session kinds with something to reconnect to (SSH, SFTP, serial, telnet).
• Close tab — end the session.

System tray

The system tray (notification area) icon is available the whole time DR-Terminal runs. Minimising the main window keeps every session running and reachable from the tray. Closing the main window quits DR-Terminal — when sessions are active you're asked to confirm first, because quitting disconnects them. Click the tray icon to raise the main window; right-click for the menu:

• Show DR-Terminal — bring the main window back to the front.
• One line per running session and Commander. A session's submenu offers Open Terminal (focus it in the main window, or raise its window if it's detached) and Rename.
• A session whose connection dropped stays listed with a — Disconnected suffix (its tab is kept for the scrollback).
• A ↗ marker next to an entry means that session is currently in its own detached window.
• Quit — close DR-Terminal (you'll be asked to confirm).

Combined with keep-alive (see SSH connections), minimised and detached sessions hold their connection open for as long as DR-Terminal runs.