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| - | ====== Managing Connections ====== | + | ====== Managing Sessions ====== |
| - | The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] shown on startup lets you open the first connection (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. 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_connection]] Opening Additional Sessions ===== |
| - | Once you have opened you first session and the main window shows, you can open additional session using //Session > New Session// or respective toolbar button or [[task_connections#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcut]]. The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] will show. There you can choose some of your stored sessions or enter the login details manually. To open stored session directly go to //Session > Saved Sessions//. | + | 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 connection will become active. | + | The newly opened session will become active. |
| - | ===== [[switch]] Switching Connections ===== | + | You can use WinSCP [[ui_jump_list|jump list]] to reopen recent sessions too. |
| - | Once you have several connections opened you can switch among them. Just go to //Session > Opened Sessions//. Or you can easily use [[ui_toolbars#opened_sessions_list|opened session drop down menu]] on toolbar or [[task_connections#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcuts]]. | + | |
| - | By default each opened session remembers its own panel state, including focused file and [[ui_file_panel#sorting_files|panel sorting]]. In [[ui_commander|Norton Commander interface]] the local panel remembers also the last used local directory for each session. This behaviour can [[ui_pref_panels#common_options|be turned off for both panels]], or for [[ui_pref_commander#panels_options|local panel only]]. | + | ===== [[closing]] Closing Session ===== |
| + | 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]]. | ||
| - | ===== Closing Connection ===== | + | 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]]. |
| - | 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. | + | |
| - | ===== Saving Opened Session ===== | + | You can also have session disconnected automatically once [[once_done|an operation finishes]]. |
| - | If you have opened ad hoc session, but then you decide that you want it in [[ui_login_stored_sessions|stored session list]], you can use command //Session > Save 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 //Tabs > Save Session as Site//. | ||
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| + | 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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| + | ===== [[session_color]] Session Color ===== | ||
| + | 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//. | ||
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| - | Even if your current session is already stored in the session list, you can use the command to change the session's [[ui_login_directories#initial_directories|initial directories]] to current ones. | ||
| - | ===== Keyboard Shortcuts ===== | ||
| - | [[ui_commander_key#session_management|Keyboard shortcuts]] for session management are the same for both interfaces. | ||