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This wiki is the user guide for Cablebag: how to set it up and how to get things done with it. It follows the names you see in the app, so you can find each setting where the page says it is.

Cablebag is a free remote access app for Windows 10 and 11. It puts SSH, Remote Desktop (RDP), VNC, Telnet, serial ports, SFTP and FTP, PowerShell remoting (WinRM), local shells and WSL, web pages (with a browser profile per tenant or account), Proxmox consoles and Docker containers in tabs in one window, with remote files beside every SSH tab, logins from your credential sources (Vaultwarden or Bitwarden, CyberArk, Delinea Secret Server, Proton Pass), session sync, and an assistant that can work on your servers. It can run WireGuard inside the app, per session, so two customers' VPNs with the same address ranges can be open at the same time. It imports your sessions from MobaXterm, PuTTY, KiTTY, WinSCP, the OpenSSH config and .rdp files.

Cablebag is free and open source under the MIT licence. Releases are for Windows; it can also be built from source on Linux, without Remote Desktop tabs.

Start here

1. Getting started: install, your first session, the search box, importing what you already have.
2. Sessions: every session type, folders that hand down settings, tabs, split view, tiling and workspaces.
3. WireGuard per session: a VPN inside Cablebag, only for the sessions that choose it.
4. Credential sources: where your logins live and how they are protected.

New in 0.19 and 0.20

• Containers: the containers on a server with Docker in a tab, like Portainer but inside Cablebag: where each compose file is, logs, a shell inside, start, stop and restart; stacks of your own and templates with blanks; moving a stack to another server, with a roll-back when it does not come up healthy.

New in 0.17 and 0.18

• Web tabs: browser profiles, so two Microsoft 365 tenants or two Teams can be signed in side by side, each in its own colour; the Servers and Web views of the sidebar; pinned sites with their unread counts; notifications; filling logins from your credential sources; importing your Chrome, Edge and Firefox bookmarks.
• Credential sources: Proton Pass as a source, through Proton's own pass-cli.
• Remote files follow the folder of the terminal; macros have blanks Cablebag asks for, can belong to one folder, and can be saved from a command you select in the terminal; a Remote Desktop Gateway can be set once for a folder.
• Settings are grouped into pages that say things once, with longer explanations behind an (i). Pages that moved: SSH, keys from an agent and the dots in the tree are on Connections; words in colour and writing terminals to files on Terminal; the assistant's memory and log have pages of their own.

New in 0.16.0

• Credential sources: several Vaultwarden or Bitwarden vaults side by side, CyberArk and Delinea Secret Server.
• CyberArk PSM: SSH, SFTP and Remote Desktop through CyberArk's session manager.
• PowerShell remoting: a remote PowerShell on a Windows server, in a terminal tab.
• X11: the windows of Linux programs on this PC, with the X server that now comes with Cablebag.
• Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader use, and Report a problem in Troubleshooting and FAQ.

All pages

• Getting started
• Sessions
• Web tabs
• PowerShell remoting
• X11
• WireGuard per session
• Remote files and editing
• Proxmox
• Containers
• Credential sources
• CyberArk PSM
• Sync
• Assistant
• Tools
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Accessibility
• Importing from other tools
• Troubleshooting and FAQ

Elsewhere

• Releases: the installer and every version.
• What's new: what changed in each version.
• Discussions: questions, ideas and show and tell.
• Issues: bug reports and feature requests, with a form for each. From inside Cablebag, Report a problem fills the bug form in for you.
• Security: report a vulnerability privately.