SSH Search Provider

A gnome-shell extension which searches the ssh config and known_hosts file and provides the found ssh connections in your shell overview.

Features

• it parses the ~/.ssh/config file and searches for the hostnames
• it parses the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file and reads all hostnames (to use this feature you have to set the ssh setting "HashKnownHosts" to "no")
• you are able to define a user for the founded hosts in the search term

Examples

Assume the ~/.ssh/config file looks like

Host desktop
User user
HostName 192.168.1.100

Host desktop1
User user
HostName 192.168.1.101

host vserver
User user
Port 2222
HostName 11.11.111.111

and the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file looks like

[11.11.111.111]:2222 ssh-rsa AAAAB...
github.com,207.97.227.239 ssh-rsa AAAAB...
user.webfactional.com,22.22.222.222 ssh-rsa AAAAB...
192.168.1.100 ssh-rsa AAAAB...

Here are some example searches and the search results

• search-term: desk

  1. desktop
  2. desktop1

• search-term: rv

  1. vserver

• search-term: 11

  1. 11.11.111.111:2222

• search-term: 97

  1. 207.97.227.239

• search-term: user@ (all hostnames are in the search results)

  1. user@desktop
  2. user@desktop1
  3. user@vserver
  4. user@11.11.111.111:2222
  5. user@github.com
  6. user@207.97.227.239
  7. user@user.webfactional.com
  8. user@22.22.222.222
  9. user@192.168.1.100

• search-term: user@des

  1. user@desktop
  2. user@desktop1

Installation

Install the extension directly from the gnome-shell extension webpage: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/73/ssh-search-provider/

or manually

• copy or link the folder "ssh-search-provider@gnome-shell-extensions.brot.github.com" to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
• enable extension (e.g. via gnome-tweak-tool)

Selecting Your preferred Terminal Application (only for gnome-shell > 3.4)

If you want to replace 'gnome-terminal' with the name of your preferred terminal app so you have to set it in the gsettings. You can do this with the following command on the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec <new default editor>

For example if you want to change gnome-terminal with terminator type:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec terminator

Define arguments for your Terminal Application (only for gnome-shell >= 3.8)

If you want to add some arguments for your terminal app you can set this arguments with

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg "<args>"

For example if you want to use terminator in borderless mode type:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg "--borderless"

License

Copyright (c) 2011 Bernd Schlapsi brot@gmx.info

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.