Reconnect from Recent#

Pick a host out of your recent list, and reopen the sessions you had running when you last closed the app.

Recent is a short history of what you have connected to, so a return to a host does not mean you retype it or hunt through your profiles. Remote Terminal also remembers the sessions you had open when you last closed the app, and offers to reopen them.

Reconnect from Recent#

The Recent section in the sidebar lists the ten most recent connections, newest first, each with the time since you used it. Select one to reconnect.

What happens next depends on how you made the connection in the first place.

  • Saved profile: reconnects straight away, with the credentials in your keychain.
  • Quick Connect with a key: reconnects straight away too.
  • Quick Connect with a password: asks for the password again, because Remote Terminal never stored that password.

The eraser on the Recent header clears the list. It takes effect immediately, with no confirmation.

If you delete a profile and then select its entry in Recent, the entry cannot be used and tells you the profile no longer exists. Clear the list, or ignore the entry.

Restore your last sessions#

When you reopen Remote Terminal after you closed it with sessions running, the New Session panel offers to bring them back, for example Restore your previous 2 sessions?. Select Restore to reopen them.

Sessions that can reconnect on their own do so: local shells, saved profiles, and key-based connections. Password-based Quick Connect sessions ask for their password one at a time before anything opens. You can skip any of them, and a skip leaves that session out.

What is remembered, and what is not#

The snapshot records what each session was, not what happened in it. For each session it keeps the type, its label, the shell or profile it used, any on-connect command, and the details needed to reconnect: host, port, username, and any key path. It keeps the tab's colour theme too.

The snapshot does not keep the scrollback, and it does not keep your pane layout: restored sessions reopen as a fresh set of splits rather than the arrangement you had. Passwords are never part of the snapshot.

Note Only one tab is remembered. If you had several Remote Terminal tabs open, the snapshot is taken from the one with the most sessions, and it reopens in whichever tab you use first after restarting.