tabby-home

A connection manager home panel plugin for Tabby — organize and manage all your SSH, Telnet, and Serial connections in one place.

Features

• Connection panel — opens automatically on startup as a home tab
• Groups — organize hosts into color-coded groups with nested navigation
• Smart search — filter by name, host, username, tag, group, or connection type using query syntax
• Sort — sort by default order, alphabetical name, or most recently connected
• Grid / List view — toggle between card grid and compact list layout
• Connection status — ping all hosts to check online/offline status at a glance
• Selection mode — select multiple hosts to open tabs, split panes, or launch MultiExec
• MultiExec — broadcast commands to multiple SSH sessions simultaneously in a split-pane view
• Drag & drop — reorder hosts, move between groups, or drag into a MultiExec tab
• Import / Export — backup and restore connections as JSON
• Hotkey — configurable keyboard shortcut to jump to the connection panel
• Vault integration — credentials (password, private key, passphrase) stored securely in Tabby's vault

Installation

Inside Tabby, go to Settings → Plugins and search for tabby-home, then click Install.

Or install manually:

# Windows
cd %APPDATA%\tabby\plugins
npm install tabby-home

# macOS / Linux
cd ~/.config\tabby\plugins
npm install tabby-home

Restart Tabby after installation.

Search Query Syntax

Type in the search box to filter hosts. Supports:

| Syntax | Description | |--------|-------------| | type:ssh | Filter SSH connections | | type:telnet | Filter Telnet connections | | type:serial | Filter Serial connections | | name:web | Filter by host name | | user:admin | Filter by username | | tag:prod | Filter by tag | | group:dc1 | Filter by group name | | web && prod | Match ALL terms (AND) | | web \|\| db | Match ANY term (OR) |

Type / at the end of your query to show the suggestion dropdown.

MultiExec

MultiExec lets you run commands on multiple servers at the same time:

1. Open connection panel → enable Selection mode → select hosts → click MultiExec
2. Or right-click a group → Open all (MultiExec)
3. Or drag a host card from the panel onto a MultiExec tab header

In the MultiExec tab, type a command in the broadcast bar and press Enter to send it to all selected panes simultaneously.

Hotkey

Go to Settings → Hotkeys and assign a shortcut to connection-manager-open to quickly switch back to the home panel from any tab.

License

MIT