home-custom

tabby plugin

This plugin is an extended fork of tabby-home by its original author. All core functionality belongs to them — this fork adds extra features on top.

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

Features

All features from the original tabby-home, plus:

• Multi-selection with keyboard modifiers — select multiple hosts using Ctrl+Click, Cmd+Click (macOS), or Shift+Click for range selection
• Jump Host support — assign a jump host (bastion) to any server: create a new one or reuse an existing SSH profile
• Bulk credential editing — when multiple hosts are selected, update username and/or password across all of them at once

Original 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 home-custom, then click Install.

Or install manually:

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

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

Restart Tabby after installation.

New Features Usage

Multi-selection with keyboard modifiers

Use keyboard modifiers while clicking hosts to build a selection without switching to Selection Mode:

| Shortcut | Behavior | |----------|----------| | Ctrl + Click | Toggle a single host in/out of selection | | Cmd + Click (macOS) | Toggle a single host in/out of selection | | Shift + Click | Select a range between the last selected and clicked host |

Jump Host

Right-click a host (or use the ⋮ menu on the card) and choose Set Jump Host:

• New jump host — fill in host, port, and credentials to create a fresh bastion entry
• Existing profile — pick any SSH profile already saved in Tabby as the jump host

The jump host is shown as a badge on the host card and is used transparently when connecting.

Bulk Credential Editing

1. Select two or more hosts (via Selection Mode or keyboard modifiers)
2. Click the Edit credentials button that appears in the toolbar
3. Enter a username and/or password — only non-empty fields are applied, leaving other hosts' values untouched

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.

Credits

Based on tabby-home — all core features and architecture are from the original plugin. This fork only extends it with additional functionality.

License

MIT