---
name: "sshmenu"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sshmenu"
version: "3.18-2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sshmenu"
---

# sshmenu(1)

GNOME applet for connecting to hosts using SSH.

## NAME

sshmenu - GNOME applet for connecting to hosts using SSH.

## DESCRIPTION

The SSHMenu applet puts all your most frequently used SSH connections on a handy menu in your GNOME panel (see below for non-GNOME versions.  Click on a host name to open a new gnome-terminal window with an ssh connection to the selected host.  Set up SSH options (such as port forwarding etc) and select a gnome terminal profile (for colour schemes, font sizes etc) using the preferences dialog.

Add the applet to a GNOME panel in the normal way: right click on the panel,  select 'Add to Panel' and then select the SSH Menu Applet from the list.

Configure the applet using the 'Preferences' option on the applet menu.

## STANDALONE VERSIONS

The SSHMenu application uses the GTK GUI toolkit but is not dependent on the GNOME desktop environment.  Two alternative wrapper scripts are provided:

sshmenu-gnome - provides all the functionality of the SSHMenu applet but in a standalone application window that could (for example) be swallowed into the panel of an alternative desktop environment.

sshmenu - provides similar functionality to sshmenu-gnome, but without any GNOME dependencies.  Notably, xterm is used instead of gnome-terminal.

The Hacker's Guide ( http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/dev/hackers\_guide.html )  describes a number of ways in which the SSHMenu can be further customised.

## OPTIONS

The applet is not invoked from the command-line however the standalone versions recognise the following options and can be extended to recognise more:

- **-c** *FILE***, --config-file** *FILE*

  read and write config information to *FILE* instead of the default **$HOME/.sshmenu**

- **-d** *NUM***, --debug** *NUM*

  set debug level to *NUM* (default: 0)

- **-s** *NUM***, --socket-window-id** *NUM*

  use the XEmbed protocol to embed the SSHMenu user interface in the window identified by *NUM* instead of creating a new, top-level window,

- **-V**, **--version**

  output version information and exit

## AUTHOR

sshmenu-applet was written by Grant McLean \<grant@mclean.net.nz\>