Feels less satisfactory than the remote-ssh plugin

[Zha-Miku]

I have multiple projects on different remote servers, and each switch requires reloading windows and reconnecting ssh. I have dozens of terminals in each workspace, and loading is still too slow, and each reconnection affects the operation of the interactive terminals

Also, some of my terminals were running some foreground services, and the foreground process ended when I switched to another workspace

[alefragnani]

Hi @Zha-Miku ,

These extensions serves different purposes, and depending on your requirements and use cases, one fits better.

The Project Manager purpose is to give you easy access to your favorite projects, supporting a wide variety of kind of projects, like local folders, workspaces, and remote locations, so you can easily and quickly open them. It does not, on the other hand, handle "session management" like which editors you have opened, terminal sessions or chat history. This is handled by VS Code itself. When you switch/open a project, either via Project Manager or VS Code itself (File / Open... or File / Open Recent commands), VS Code is responsible for restoring the session state.

The Remote SSH extension provides you remote connection to folders via SSH, like the WSL and Dev Container extensions provides you support to WSL and Docker connections respectively. They manage their connections in a way their (specific) platform needs, and manage store session on their own way.

When you save a favorite project, in Project Manager, that is a SSH, WSL or Dev Container, any session state that needs/can be restored, will be restored by VS Code and/or SSH/WSL/DevContainer extensions, not Project Manager. The Project Manager extension does not opens SSH (or any other) remote connection. It only tells VS Code to open that "folder", just like you it would work if you choose File / Open Recent command.

I'm not sure what is your question, or complain, but I hope this explanation helps you to better understand the boundaries of Project Manager and VS Code / remote connections.

Hope this helps