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v0.9.0

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v0.8.0

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

v0.7.0 — Insight, export & PyPI

Insight, export, and packaging — since v0.6.0.

📖 Docs: https://r4nd3l.github.io/claude-session-manager/

What's new

• Waiting badge — sessions where Claude's last message was a question (with no reply after it) show an amber ? in the sidebar, so you can spot what needs you.
• Export as Markdown — right-click a session → Export as Markdown… to save the full transcript (metadata + You/Claude turns, tool calls noted).
• Now on PyPI — install with pipx (PyGObject comes from the system):

  pipx install --system-site-packages claude-session-manager-gtk

• The app ID moved to io.github.r4nd3l.ClaudeSessionManager (Flathub-ready).

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.7.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the docs.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.6.0 — Navigation & config

Navigation and configuration, since v0.5.0.

📖 Docs: https://r4nd3l.github.io/claude-session-manager/

What's new

• Quick switcher (Ctrl+Shift+K) — a type-ahead dialog to jump to any session by name, project, preview, or ID.
• New Session remembers your folder — the button starts a session in the last-used directory; its dropdown picks a different one.
• Resizable sidebar — drag the divider; the width is remembered across launches.
• Drag to reorder tabs.
• MCP servers browser (menu → MCP servers) — a read-only view of every MCP server configured in ~/.claude.json, global and per-project.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.6.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the docs.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.5.0 — Session insight

Insight into your sessions, since v0.4.0.

📖 Docs: https://r4nd3l.github.io/claude-session-manager/

What's new

• Transcript peek — the session details dialog now shows a Recent activity section with the last ~12 user/assistant messages, so you can identify a session without resuming it.
• Idle notifications — when a background tab produces output and then goes quiet, you get a desktop notification ("Claude finished responding"); click it to jump to that tab. Toggle in Preferences.
• MCP insight — details now list the MCP servers available to the session's project and which MCP servers it actually used (parsed from the transcript). Strictly read-only.
• Documentation site — a full guide is now online at the link above.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.5.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the docs.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.4.0 — Tab usability

Tab usability improvements since v0.3.0.

What's new

• Tab emoji — right-click a tab → Set emoji… to prefix its title (e.g. 🚀 my-session). Tab-only, persisted per session, independent of renaming, and cleared by saving an empty value. The dialog has a built-in emoji picker.
• Shift+Enter inserts a newline in Claude's prompt (sends Meta+Enter), instead of submitting.
• Clearer active tab — the selected tab now stands out with a brand-colored tint, an accent underline, and a bold label; inactive tabs are dimmed.
• Close-all-tabs button — appears next to the new-tab button when more than one tab is open, with a custom close icon that mirrors the new-tab button.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.4.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the README.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.3.0 — Search & graceful close

Search, graceful close, and sidebar polish since v0.2.0.

What's new

• In-terminal search — a find bar (Ctrl+Shift+G) over each tab's scrollback, with next/previous and wrap-around.
• Graceful close — closing a tab now asks Claude to exit cleanly (/exit) in the background and closes once the shell returns, instead of terminating the process. A timeout force-closes as a fallback.
• Copy session ID — straight from the tab right-click menu (Rename… / Copy session ID / Close).
• Collapsed by default — project groups and Favorites start folded for a tidy overview; manual expand/collapse choices survive live refreshes.
• Card-style rows — session rows are styled as subtle rounded cards.

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.3.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the README.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.2.0 — Tabs & workflow

Tab and workflow improvements since v0.1.0.

What's new

• Renameable tabs — right-click a tab → Rename… Renaming a session's tab updates its name everywhere; fork/new tabs get a local title.
• Per-tab status dots — each open tab carries the same colored dot as the sidebar (green = open, blue = output arrived while unfocused).
• Toggleable sidebar — header button or F9 to hide/show the sidebar and give the terminals the full width.
• Close confirmation — closing a tab while a command is still running (e.g. claude mid-task) now asks first, instead of silently terminating it.
• Status footer — session, project, transcript-size, and open-tab counts at the bottom of the sidebar.
• .deb package — install on Debian/Ubuntu directly (attached below).

Install

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./claude-session-manager_0.2.0_all.deb

Or from source — see the README for distro packages.

Unofficial community tool; not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude Code's own data is never modified.

v0.1.0 — Initial release

Native GTK4/libadwaita desktop app to manage and resume Claude Code sessions.

Unofficial community tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Highlights

• Sidebar of all your sessions — grouped by project (collapsible), with a pinned Favorites section, custom names, search, and live updates as sessions are created or written to
• Tabbed embedded terminals — click a session to resume it (claude --resume) in its original project directory, inside your own shell
• Attention indicators — see when a background session produces output, in the tab and the sidebar
• Session details — message counts, models, token usage parsed from the transcript
• Bulk selection — open, star, hide, or trash many sessions at once
• Open in Ghostty — resume a session in an external Ghostty window
• Preferences (font, scrollback, color scheme), keyboard shortcuts, desktop launcher + icon

Install

See the README for distro packages, then:

git clone https://github.com/r4nd3l/claude-session-manager.git
cd claude-session-manager
./data/install.sh   # desktop launcher + icon
python3 -m claude_session_manager

Claude Code's own data is never modified — all app state lives in ~/.config/claude-session-manager/.