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===== [[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 [[task_connections#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcut]]. The [[ui_login|Login dialog]] will show. There you can choose some of your [[session_configuration#stored|stored sessions]] or enter the login details manually. To directly open a stored session, 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 session will become active. | The newly opened session will become active. | ||
- | ===== [[switch]] Switching Sessions ===== | + | You can use WinSCP [[ui_jump_list|jump list]] to reopen recent sessions too. |
- | Once you have several sessions opened you can switch among them. Just go to //Session > Opened Sessions//. Or you can easily use the [[ui_toolbars#opened_sessions_list|opened session drop down menu]] on the toolbar or [[task_connections#keyboard_shortcuts|keyboard shortcuts]]. //In the latest beta release opened session drop down menu was replaced with [[ui_sessiontabs|session tabs]].// &beta | + | |
- | 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 behaviour can be [[ui_pref_panels#common_options|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 Session ===== | + | 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. | + | |
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_stored_sessions|stored session list]], you can use command //Session > Save 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//. |
- | 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#directories|initial directories]] 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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+ | ===== [[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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- | ===== Keyboard Shortcuts ===== | ||
- | [[ui_commander_key#session_management|Keyboard shortcuts]] for session management are the same for both interfaces. | ||
- | ===== Session Color ===== | ||
- | If you like, you can associate color with each session. The color will influence [[ui_file_panel|file panels]] as well as session item in [[ui_toolbars#opened_sessions_list|opened session drop down menu]] and in [[ui_login_stored_sessions|stored sessions list]]. You can associate the color with stored session on [[ui_login_session|Login dialog]]. To change color of already opened session go to //View > Color// in [[ui_explorer|Explorer interface]] or | ||
- | //Options > Color// in [[ui_commander|Commander interface]]. |