bssh(1)

bssh1

Browse for ssh/vnc servers on the local network

Usage

bssh

bvnc

bshell

Overview

bssh/bvnc/bshell browses for SSH/VNC servers on the local network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made.

If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown. If the binary is called as bvnc only VNC servers will be shown. If the binary is called as bshell both VNC and SSH servers are shown.

Options

-s | --ssh

Browse for SSH servers (and only SSH servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

-v | --vnc

Browse for VNC servers (and only VNC servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

-S | --shell

Browse for both VNC and SSH servers regardless under which name the binary is called.

-d | --domain= DOMAIN

Browse in the specified domain. If omitted bssh/bvnc/bshell will browse in the default browsing domain (usually .local)

-h | --help

Show help.

Comments

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–Arch

Authors

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

From avahi-gtk 1:0.9rc5-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.