Getting started
sshbar lives in the menu bar, the strip of small icons at the top-right of your screen. Click its icon and a small panel opens. That panel is the whole app: no windows, no Dock icon, no settings maze. Haven't installed it yet? Start at the download page.
Three sections, one search box
The panel has three sections (Servers, Tunnels, and SSH Keys) and a search box that filters all three at once.
That's the whole app.
Mouse or keyboard
Click the sshbar icon in the menu bar, or press the global shortcut from anywhere:
Once the panel is open, arrow keys move through it and Enter activates: connect to a server, toggle a tunnel, or copy a key, all without touching the mouse. Type to search first if the list is long.
Click, flip, copy
Click a server and an SSH session opens in your terminal (Ghostty, iTerm2, Warp, kitty, Alacritty, or Terminal, auto-detected). Recent connections gather at the top of the list.
Flip a tunnel's switch to start it in the background. It keeps running with the panel closed, and stops cleanly when you flip it off or quit.
Expand a key in the SSH Keys section and click copy. Usually that's the public key, the one you paste onto servers.
Edited your ~/.ssh/config? Hit the reload button (↻) and the server list updates.
The three chapters
Each chapter teaches the underlying SSH idea first, then how sshbar uses it. Start wherever you're curious: