sshTIK An SSH terminal that pops open a file manager and a database browser — on the session you already have.

Most of the time sshTIK is just a terminal. You connect, you type, it looks like ssh. The difference is what happens when you press a function key.

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Files

A dual-pane file manager opens over SFTP — the remote side already in your shell's directory, your local machine opposite. Type-aware icons, folders grouped first, three-state column sorting, drag-and-drop, recursive copy and move, rename, chmod, delete. Double-click a remote file to edit it in your local editor; every save uploads.

F6

Database

A two-pane database commander in the same style: the server you're on beside any other host from your SSH config. Copy or move whole tables and entire databases between them (a mysqldump piped straight into mysql), create and drop databases, and open any table's rows — all over the SSH sessions you already have.

Everything rides on the one SSH connection you authenticated with. No second login, no FTP daemon, no tunnels to configure, nothing to install on the server.

See it in action

A plain SSH terminal until you press a function key — **Just a terminal — until a function key.** Tabs, saved hosts, agent, key and password auth. It connects and behaves like the `ssh` you already know.

F5: dual-pane file manager, remote pane already in the shell's directory, mid-copy — **F5 — the file commander.** Local beside remote, with the remote pane already sitting in your shell's directory. Type-aware icons, folders-first sorting and a Midnight-Commander key bar — caught here mid-copy of 16 files.

F6: two-pane database commander copying tables between two servers — **F6 — the database commander.** The same two-pane idea for MySQL: a different server on each side. Here it's copying two tables from a database on `server-yorkshire` straight into `server-dusseldorf`.

F6: opening a table's rows in a data grid — **Open any table's rows.** Enter (or F3) on a table pops its rows up in a grid, read straight from the live server.

Saved hosts plus everything from ~/.ssh/config — **Everything from your `~/.ssh/config`.** Your saved hosts alongside the Host entries you already keep, ready to pick.

Source on GitHub Downloads

Install

Linux only for now — it's built on GTK and VTE, the same terminal widget as GNOME Terminal and xfce4-terminal.

# Any distro with Flatpak: grab the .flatpak from the Downloads page, then
flatpak install sshtik-*.flatpak

# Or from source — Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install gir1.2-vte-2.91 python3-paramiko python3-gi pipx

# Fedora
sudo dnf install vte291 python3-paramiko python3-gobject pipx

git clone https://github.com/xsDevelopments/sshtik
./sshtik/install.sh
sshtik user@host -p 22

Also in the box

Tabs, saved hosts, and everything in your ~/.ssh/config ready to pick from
Key, agent and password authentication
Right-click copy/paste, Ctrl++/− zoom, window layout remembered
Works over the same non-standard ports and jump hosts your ssh does

How it works

One SSH transport, several channels. The terminal is an interactive shell channel; the file panel is the SFTP subsystem on the same transport. The helpers learn what you're doing through short exec channels — the shell's current directory from /proc/<pid>/cwd, the running mysql client's user and host from its command line. Nothing is scraped off the screen. Either database pane can also point at another host in your ~/.ssh/config and run mysql there over its own hidden session, so a copy between two servers never leaves the app.