Windows & tray

On Desktop your sessions aren't locked to a single window. Any tab can live in its own OS window, and DR-Terminal keeps running in the system tray when the main window is closed or minimised.

Detach a session into its own window

Every session — an SSH terminal, an SFTP browser, a local or serial terminal, even a Commander (see File manager) — can be popped out into a standalone window. Use the open-in-new-window control on the session's tab or sidebar entry.

• 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.

System tray

Closing or minimising the main window leaves DR-Terminal in the system tray (notification area), so background sessions keep running and stay reachable. 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.
• A line per running session and Commander. A session opens a submenu with:
• Open — focus it in the main window, or raise its window if it's detached.
• Rename — give the session a custom name (shown in tabs, sidebar and tray).
• 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), tray and detached sessions hold their connection open even while their window is hidden.