Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like?

Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by artemave on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:54AM (#50163161)

One thing you might be missing is better integration between the local desktop and the remote environment. Things like persistent ssh connections, seamless clipboard sharing (including images), port forwarding and file path translation, so that working remotely feels almost indistinguishable from working locally.

I wrote a session manager[1] to handle all that. Linux/sway/kitty only though.

[1] https://github.com/artemave/hop

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Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by otherayden on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:14AM (#50167654)

I have been dying for clipboard sharing actually. I have sort of a hacky solution using scp and xclip but I will definitely be checking out the session manager

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Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by artemave on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:31PM (#50171493)

If all you want is clipboard integration over ssh, then, perhaps, kitty terminal might be enough.

hop does take it a notch further and allows to `hop open` images (or any binary really) from the remote machine such that they are opened by your host's xdg-open (as well as pasting images from host to remote).

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Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by ceniymeisg on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:33AM (#50182755)

Make sure your terminal and tmux have OSC 52 enabled so your Neovim yank directly copies into your local client's clipboard over SSH.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by otherayden on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:21PM (#50211469)

you are my savior this is the exact use case that I have been hacking around thank you

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Re:Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like? by adriant93 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:22AM (#50375849)

Maybe you can consider giving my app a try see if it sorts your issue, and if it doesn't I'm happy to build towards sorting it. The app's paid, but it's $20 one time, no subscription. I'm trying to raise awareness of it and get developers off subscriptions. https://branchbay.dev/branchshell

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