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| ====== Managing Sessions ====== | ====== Managing Sessions ====== | ||
| - | The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] shown on startup lets you open the first session. But with WinSCP you can have several sessions opened at once or close the first session and reuse the window for another. | + | The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] shown on startup lets you open the first session.((I you have opted not to show the Login dialog automatically by mistake, you can restore it in [[ui_pref_window|preferences]].)) But with WinSCP you can have several sessions opened at once or close the first session and reuse the window for another. |
| ===== [[opening_additional_connection]] Opening Additional Sessions ===== | ===== [[opening_additional_connection]] Opening Additional Sessions ===== | ||
| - | Once you have opened your first session and the main window shows up, you can open additional sessions using //Session > New Session// or the corresponding toolbar button or [[#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcut]]. The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] will show. There you can choose some of your [[session_configuration#site|sites]] or enter the login details manually. To directly open a site, go to //Session > Sites//. | + | Once you have opened your first session and the main window shows up, you can open additional sessions using //Tabs > New Tab [> Remote Tab]// or the corresponding toolbar button or [[ui_tabs#keyboard|keyboard shortcut]]. The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] will show. There you can choose some of your [[session_configuration#site|sites]] or enter the login details manually. To directly open a site, go to //Tabs > Sites//. |
| The newly opened session will become active. | The newly opened session will become active. | ||
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| You can use WinSCP [[ui_jump_list|jump list]] to reopen recent sessions too. | You can use WinSCP [[ui_jump_list|jump list]] to reopen recent sessions too. | ||
| - | ===== [[switch]] Switching Sessions ===== | + | ===== [[closing]] Closing Session ===== |
| - | Once you have several sessions opened you can switch among them. Use [[ui_sessiontabs|session tabs]] for that. Or just go to //Session > Opened Sessions// or [[#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcuts]]. | + | To disconnect a connection, while keeping the connection tab open, go to //Tabs > Disconnect Session//. To close the session tab, go to //Tabs > Close Tab// or [[ui_tabs#working|close the tab itself]]. |
| - | By default each opened session remembers its own panel state, including focused file and [[ui_file_panel#sorting_files|panel sorting]]. In [[ui_commander|Commander interface]] the local panel remembers also the last used local directory for each session. This behavior can be [[ui_pref_panels#common_options|turned off for both panels]], or for [[ui_pref_commander#panels_options|local panel only]]. | + | When the last connection is closed, [[ui_login|Login dialog]] shows automatically, by default. You can [[ui_pref_window#miscellaneous|turn that off in preferences]]. |
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| - | ===== Closing Session ===== | + | |
| - | To close connection, while keeping the WinSCP opened, go to //Session > Disconnect//. When you disconnect the last opened session, the [[ui_login|Login dialog]] will automatically show. You need to use it to open another session. If you close it without opening any, WinSCP will close completely. | + | |
| You can also have session disconnected automatically once [[once_done|an operation finishes]]. | You can also have session disconnected automatically once [[once_done|an operation finishes]]. | ||
| - | ===== Saving Opened Session ===== | + | ===== [[saving]] Saving Opened Session ===== |
| - | If you have opened ad hoc session, but then you decide that you want it in [[ui_login|site list]], you can use command //Session > Save Session as Site//.· | + | If you have opened ad hoc session, but then you decide that you want it in [[ui_login|site list]], you can use command //Tabs > Save Session as Site//. |
| Even if the site you are connected to is already stored in the site list, you can use the command to change the site's initial state (such as [[ui_login_directories#directories|directories]], [[task_navigate#synchronize_browsing|synchronized browsing state]] and [[#session_color|session color]]) to current ones. | Even if the site you are connected to is already stored in the site list, you can use the command to change the site's initial state (such as [[ui_login_directories#directories|directories]], [[task_navigate#synchronize_browsing|synchronized browsing state]] and [[#session_color|session color]]) to current ones. | ||
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| - | ===== Keyboard Shortcuts ===== | ||
| - | [[ui_commander_key#session_management|Keyboard shortcuts]] for session management are the same for both interfaces. | ||
| ===== [[session_color]] Session Color ===== | ===== [[session_color]] Session Color ===== | ||
| - | If you like, you can associate color with each session. The color will influence [[ui_file_panel|file panels]], [[ui_sessiontabs|session tab]], site item in [[ui_login|site list]] and well as initial color of associated [[ui_editor|internal editors]]. You can associate the color with site on [[ui_login_advanced#color|Advanced Site Settings dialog]]. To change color of already opened session go to //View > Color// in [[ui_explorer|Explorer interface]] or | + | If you like, you can associate color with each session. The color will influence [[ui_file_panel|file panels]], [[ui_tabs|tab]], site item in [[ui_login|site list]] and well as initial color of associated [[ui_editor|internal editors]]. You can associate the color with site on [[ui_login_advanced#color|Advanced Site Settings dialog]]. To change color of already opened session go to //Tabs > Color//. |
| - | //Options > Color// in [[ui_commander|Commander interface]]. | + | |
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| - | ===== Workspaces ===== | ||
| - | You can save all our opened sessions into [[workspace]] and restore them later. | ||