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Session ShortCuts (or SSC in short) is an application that gives you faster access to active and stored sessions in various applications.

SSC offers the possibility of configuring an arbitrary number of “application groups”, each with an assignable hot-key, applications to include, and various other options. Upon activating the hot-key for an application group, SSC will find any running application instances (active sessions), and also import any stored sessions (from disk or wherever the application stores sessions), and display a pop-up menu with easy access to all of these sessions.

SSC originally started as the project TWSC - Terminal Window ShortCuts, but eventually grew out of the “Terminal Window” area into a more generic application.

Supported Applications

Terminal clients
NetSarang Xmanager2 (Xstart - experimental)
NetSarang Xshell2
PuTTY
Van Dyke SecureCRT (v4.x, v5.x)

File Transfer (ftp, scp, etc..)
FileZilla v2^{1 4}
FlashFXP² (v2.x, v3.x)
NetSarang Xftp
WinSCP (v3.x, v4.x)

Remote Administration
Dameware Mini Remote Control (DWMRC)
Microsoft Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)
RealVNC
TightVNC
UltraVNC

Web Browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer (v6.x)
Opera (v6 and up)
Mozilla Firefox (v1.x)

Miscellaneous
Microsoft Windows Explorer
Console / Command Line (cmd.exe)
Cygwin ³
FolderMenus (Displays folders and shortcuts, Start menu style) ³
Microsoft Visual Studio (2003, 2005)

¹ FileZilla has a bug which prevents some functionality
² FlashFXP stored sessions only accessible when sites file is stored unencrypted
³ Unreleased as of now / not included
⁴ FileZilla v3 does not yet support launching stored sessions through the command line. Go to their issue tracker or forum and hassle them into implementing it!

Screenshots

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Application settings:

Popup menu:

Tray menu:

Download

http://spoox.org/ssc_1_0_1.exe (Installer)

http://spoox.org/ssc_1_0_1.zip (Zipped installer, in case of firewalls blocking .exe downloads)

Both files are approximately 1.5 MB.

I’d still love to hear what people think of it, or any feedback (both positive and negative are welcome), suggestions etc, so drop an email at ssc at lists dot spoox dot org and let me know what you think!

Possible Future Supported Applications

These are possible other applications I might look at adding support for in the future, whenever/if I get time:

Citrix
GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP [lacks way of launching stored sessions, might work with macro/scripts in Pro version]
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint)
OpenOffice.org
Van Dyke SecureFX

Also, as the application support structure is now plug-in based, I might get around to releasing an SDK for people to develop their own plug-ins for whatever applications are missing.

Bugs or feature suggestions?

If you think you’ve found a bug, or if you have a feature suggestion please don’t hesitate to contact me (e-mail sscbugs at lists dot spoox dot org).

You could also check what known bugs exist, or what features might be planned in the flyspray database for SSC.