Select External Terminal Emulator for SSH Connection
SSH Config Manager is cross-platform and supports multiple terminal emulators without changing your terminal usage habits.
| Terminal Emulator | Windows | Linux | macOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wezterm | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ |
| Alacritty | ✅¹ | ✅¹ | ❔ |
| Kitty | ➖ | ✅¹ | ❔ |
| Windows Terminal | ✅ | ➖ | ➖ |
| Konsole | ✅¹ | ✅² | ❔ |
| GNOME Terminal | ➖ | ✅¹ | ➖ |
| iTerm2 | ➖ | ➖ | ❔ |
Legend
- ✅: Tested and fully supports designed features. Automatically establishes SSH in a new tab if window exists, or creates a new window.
- ✅¹: Tested, can successfully launch terminal, but only supports creating connections in new windows.
- ✅²: Tested, defaults to creating connections in new windows only. (Konsole: Enable “Run all Konsole windows in a single process” in Settings to use tabs).
- ❔: Not tested.
- ➖: Not supported on this platform.
Prerequisites
You must install the desired terminal emulator on your system and ensure its executable path is added to the system PATH environment variable.
- Windows: Add the terminal’s installation directory to “Environment Variables”.
- Linux/macOS: Add the path to your
~/.bashrcor~/.zshrcfile (e.g.,export PATH="/path/to/terminal:$PATH").
Auto-Detection & Fallback
The software automatically scans for supported terminals. If no third-party terminals (like WezTerm or Alacritty) are installed or detected, it will gracefully fall back to system defaults such as Windows Terminal, Konsole, or GNOME Terminal.
Pure Local Terminal
Clicking the button next to the terminal selection dropdown in the top right corner allows you to open a pure local terminal window without establishing any remote SSH connection.
Request New Terminals
If you need support for a specific terminal emulator not currently listed, please submit an issue on our GitHub repository.