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Windows

Star Term

Version
0.7.0
Price
Free (early access)
C++ Qt6 libssh2 OpenSSL Win32 API

Star Term is a fast, native SSH and RDP terminal for Windows, built for engineers who live in a shell.

Key features

  • Session tabs can be dragged into any order, and the order carries over to the Multi-Exec grid.
  • Remote Files now works in WSL sessions, browsing the distribution through its Windows share.
  • File → Connect to WSL opens a shell in any installed WSL distribution — auto-detected, with the default preselected and each shown as running or stopped, and a stopped distribution started automatically. WSL tabs support session logging, macros, and Multi-Exec just like SSH tabs.
  • RDP sessions embedded in the main window via the Remote Desktop ActiveX control — no separate remote desktop window to manage, and the session resizes in place with the window instead of reconnecting.
  • Tab key is delivered to the remote desktop during RDP sessions instead of moving focus.
  • Status bar shows license status, or days remaining in the trial.
  • RDP tab status bar showing live processor queue length, RAM, and page file usage.
  • Right-click copy/paste with mouse drag selection directly in the terminal.
  • SSH and RDP session type icons in the session sidebar, so mixed session lists stay easy to scan.
  • Check for updates on startup, configurable from Preferences → Updates.
  • Tabbed multi-session workspace with a Multi-Exec grid view for running commands across several hosts at once.
  • SFTP file browser with drag-and-drop upload and download alongside your terminal sessions, showing a clear “No access” message when a directory can’t be read.
  • Macros panel for saving and replaying frequent command sequences.
  • 2,000-line scrollback buffer with Shift+Page Up/Down navigation.
  • Dark and light UI themes.
  • Session export/import as portable JSON, for backing up or sharing setups.
  • Session logging (off by default, toggled from the main toolbar) writes a live, plain-text log per session.
  • Ten terminal color themes.

Under the hood

Star Term 0.7.0 embeds RDP sessions using the Remote Desktop ActiveX control directly inside the app tab strip, replacing the earlier approach of launching and reparenting mstsc.exe. The C++/Qt6 core carries forward from 0.2.0: a custom C++ VT100 parser for terminal emulation, libssh2 for SSH connectivity, and OpenSSL-backed Ed25519 signatures for fully offline license verification.

Where your data lives

Star Term stores everything locally — nothing is synced to the cloud. All personal settings are kept in:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\star_term

  • sessions.json — your saved SSH sessions and folder structure.
  • star-term-settings.json — your preferences, including theme, font, and cursor style.
  • known_hosts — trusted SSH host keys.
  • session_logs\ — per-session terminal output, when logging is enabled from the main toolbar.

Licensing

License purchasing is not yet available, though the status bar now shows your license status or days remaining in the trial. Star Term 0.7.0 is currently free to download and use during early access — license purchasing and key activation will be enabled in a future release.

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