Core Shell 2.2 – Local terminal profiles

[yang (Yang.Y)]

With this update, you can create local terminal profiles and change their color schemes at will.

Also, the codebase of embedded OpenSSH component has been updated to version 8.3.

Added

Local profiles

You can create local terminal profiles:

and change command, working directory or color schemes at will:

Related topics:

How to change local shell theme

Hi there! Is there a way to change the theme? I can select the theme for each external shell connections (hosts), but I can't find a way to select the theme for local shell (home).

Is there color support for just the terminal?

Is there color support for just the terminal? I would like to use a different theme.

Pin and Unpin

You can keep your most important profiles pinned to the top of your list, your pinned profiles will sync across all your Mac computers.

In profile list, performing a horizontal swipe on the profile row reveals pin/unpin action:

Or select Pin / Unpin from context menu:

Related topics:

Pin Servers to Top of List

I may be unusual, but I have literally hundreds of saved servers, but they are not all equal, there are a very small handful that I connect to multiple times a day just about every day. It would be so handy if when I hit cmd+n to get a new window those servers were pinned to the top of the list so I could just click on them. At the moment I'm hacking my own solution by pre-fixing the names with the emoji, but a real pinning option would be much better!

Change Order of Hosts in list

I'd love to be able to change the order of known hosts listed in Core Shell. Some of them I use more frequently than others and yes, I could add a number at the beginning of each name to force their order as needed but I would much prefer to be able to drag them into the order I want, please.

Does Core Shell support manual sorting on list?

In the case of managing multiple hosts, the default sorting is not very friendly, can you add the function of manual sorting?

Favicon

18 new favicons for representing primary role of a host.

Related topic:

Adding more favicons

I would love the ability to add favicons to core shell to have more differentiation based on operating system, function, etc. For instance, I want to use the nginx logo, etc. to represent what a particular server's primary role may be.

Meta Key

A new user preference to have the Option key on the keyboard act as a meta key.

Keyboard shortcuts menu

A new menu item for opening terminal keyboard shortcuts help page.

Undo

Command-Z or Control-_ to undo changes in Bash/Zsh.

Touch Bar

Add reconnect, down/upload, reset/hard reset Touch Bar actions, and allow customization.

Related topic:

Unable to access View>Customize Touch Bar

The 'Customize Touch Bar...' option under the View menu is grayed out. How can I enable it please?

Notification

Notification is disabled by default, you can turn it on in "Connection" tab of host settings panel.

Core Shell/ Core Tunnel displays a notification in Notification Center on connection status has changed.

Related topic:

Notifications of tunnel events

It would be super nice if I could get a notification on tunnel connect, tunnel disconnect and tunnel error/failure. Maybe even with an option to turn notifications on/off on a single tunnel.

Changed

OpenSSH

The codebase of embedded OpenSSH component has been updated from version 8.0 to 8.3, see the OpenSSH release notes for more details:

OpenSSH: Release Notes

Paste Selection

Extend the scope of Paste Selection to all terminal sessions. Related topic:

Select text to copy & Right click to paste

I use terminal sessions a lot to maintain 60+ hosts. In other apps I have used, there is an option to select text to copy and then right click to paste. Is this a feature you can add?

Expand tilde (~) path

Expand tilde (~) path in ProxyCommand and Include directives.

Related topic:

Support for ssh_config Include Statement

hi, it would be great if CoreTunnel would support/respect the Include directive from ssh_config. As an alternative, it would help to include more than one ssh_config in the settings of CT. Include Include the specified configuration file(s). Multiple pathnames may be specified and each pathname may contain glob(3) wildcards and, for user configurations, shell-like “~” references to user home directories. Files without absolute paths are assumed to be in ~/.ssh if included in a user confi…

Fixed

• Improve app launch time and security
• Fix text selection with Shift–Arrow Key combination
• Stop retrying if host key verification failed
• Other minor bug fixes

Special thanks to Jonathan Groves (@jonathangroves), Greg Hacke (@pagan71), Velociround (@velociround), NewCoreUser (@newcoreuser), Christian Link (@mlist), David Olrik (@davidolrik), @utkonos and @hupo for helping this release.