diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConnectingCard.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConnectingCard.axaml
index de8f47c..5c4a5d8 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConnectingCard.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConnectingCard.axaml
@@ -111,13 +111,33 @@
     <StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Spacing="18" MaxWidth="460"
                 Margin="24">
 
+      <!--
+        Which machine, and at what address. Both selectable, for the reason the session column's own address
+        is — see SessionSidebar.axaml: a TextBlock in Avalonia is a drawing of a string rather than a string,
+        and this pair is the one place the shell says what it is dialling *before* anything has answered.
+        That is exactly when the value is wanted somewhere else: in a ticket, in a message to whoever owns
+        the host, in the ssh command being written in the window beside this one. It is also the moment it is
+        least available anywhere else, because there is no prompt yet and may never be one — a refused
+        connection leaves this card holding the only copy on screen.
+
+        Both rather than only the name. They are two lines of one identifier, and a pair where the first can
+        be taken and the second cannot is a worse answer than either.
+
+        The trimming stays, and the tooltips are what make it safe rather than a trap. A drag reaches only
+        the glyphs that were drawn, so a name or an address wearing an ellipsis has to be taken with
+        select-all — Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C — which takes the whole value, because the ellipsis is a drawing and
+        not a shorter string. The hover says what the whole value is, so nobody copies half of one without
+        having been told there is a half. Same argument, same shape, as the sidebar's.
+      -->
       <StackPanel Spacing="6" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
-        <TextBlock Classes="mono" Text="{Binding SelectedTab.Label}" FontSize="16" FontWeight="Medium"
-                   Foreground="{StaticResource Text}" HorizontalAlignment="Center"
-                   TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis" />
-        <TextBlock Classes="mono" Text="{Binding SelectedTab.Address}" FontSize="11.5"
-                   Foreground="{StaticResource TextFaint}" HorizontalAlignment="Center"
-                   TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis" />
+        <SelectableTextBlock Classes="mono" Text="{Binding SelectedTab.Label}" FontSize="16"
+                             FontWeight="Medium" Foreground="{StaticResource Text}"
+                             HorizontalAlignment="Center" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
+                             ToolTip.Tip="{Binding SelectedTab.Label}" />
+        <SelectableTextBlock Classes="mono" Text="{Binding SelectedTab.Address}" FontSize="11.5"
+                             Foreground="{StaticResource TextFaint}" HorizontalAlignment="Center"
+                             TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
+                             ToolTip.Tip="{Binding SelectedTab.Address}" />
       </StackPanel>
 
       <!--
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SplashWindow.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SplashWindow.axaml
index 5d7940e..6701a43 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SplashWindow.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SplashWindow.axaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
         CanResize="False"
         WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
         Background="{StaticResource Chrome}"
-        SystemDecorations="None">
+        WindowDecorations="None">
 
   <!--
     ── WHY THERE IS A SPLASH AT ALL ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@
     look to find out whether anything is happening says nothing. It is a window, briefly, and behaves like
     one.
 
-    SystemDecorations="None" rather than BorderOnly, which the main window uses: this cannot be resized, has
-    no titlebar of its own to drag by, and lives for about a second. What replaces the frame is the card's
+    WindowDecorations="None" rather than the BorderOnly the main window asks for: this cannot be resized, has
+    no titlebar of its own to drag by, and lives for about a second. (The main window still says
+    SystemDecorations, which Avalonia 12 has deprecated in favour of this property; that one is not this
+    change's to move.) What replaces the frame is the card's
     own one-pixel border. Escape closes it only once there is nothing left to wait for — see the code-behind.
 
     ── SizeToContent, WHICH IS ABOUT THE FAILURE AND NOT ABOUT THE SPLASH ─────────────────────────────────
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
index e354193..c30cc5c 100644
--- a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
@@ -942,6 +942,49 @@ public sealed class ScreenLayoutTests : IAsyncLifetime
         await MeasureConnectingAsync(faults => faults.ShouldBeEmpty("with a refusal to explain"), tab);
     }
 
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// The card is the one place the shell says what it is dialling <em>before</em> anything answers, and on a
+    /// refusal it is the only copy of that on screen — so both lines are there to be taken away, and a
+    /// <c>TextBlock</c> in Avalonia is a drawing of a string rather than a string. Same change, same argument,
+    /// as the session column's own address; see <c>SessionSidebarTests</c>.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Asserted on values long enough to be trimmed, which is the half that could quietly break: an ellipsis
+    /// is a drawing and not a shorter string, so select-all has to reach the whole name and the whole address
+    /// rather than the part that happened to fit inside the card's 460 pixels. Values that fit would pass
+    /// whether that were true or not.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task TheConnectingCardsNameAndAddressSelectAndCopyWhole()
+    {
+        const string label = "customer-production-database-01.eu-west-1.internal.example.company";
+        const string address = "a-very-long-deploy-account@db-primary.eu-west-1.internal.example:22022";
+
+        await OnTheConnectingCardAsync(
+            card =>
+            {
+                // Found by their text rather than by position: the order is the visual tree's, and a third
+                // selectable block is already in there — the refusal reason, hidden while this tab is only
+                // connecting. Single rather than First, so a duplicate would be a question rather than a
+                // silent pick.
+                var takeable = card.GetVisualDescendants().OfType<SelectableTextBlock>().ToList();
+
+                var name = takeable.Single(block => block.Text == label);
+                var endpoint = takeable.Single(block => block.Text == address);
+
+                name.SelectAll();
+                name.SelectedText.ShouldBe(label, "the ellipsis is a drawing, not a shorter string");
+                name.CanCopy.ShouldBeTrue("Ctrl+C and the right-click Copy item are both gated on this");
+
+                endpoint.SelectAll();
+                endpoint.SelectedText.ShouldBe(address, "the ellipsis is a drawing, not a shorter string");
+                endpoint.CanCopy.ShouldBeTrue("Ctrl+C and the right-click Copy item are both gated on this");
+            },
+            new TerminalTabViewModel(label, address));
+    }
+
     // ---- The logs screen ----
 
     [Fact]
@@ -2043,6 +2086,40 @@ public sealed class ScreenLayoutTests : IAsyncLifetime
             },
             Token);
 
+    /// <summary>Lays the connecting card out and hands it over, rather than measuring it.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The same rectangle <see cref="MeasureConnectingAsync"/> uses and for the same reasons — see its
+    /// remark. Separate because the claim is about a control's own state rather than about where anything was
+    /// arranged, and threading an assertion over the card through a method whose parameter is a fault list
+    /// would make both callers harder to read than two methods are.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private Task OnTheConnectingCardAsync(Action<ConnectingCard> body, TerminalTabViewModel tab) =>
+        LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () =>
+            {
+                shell.State = ShellState.Unlocked;
+                shell.Tabs.Clear();
+                shell.Tabs.Add(tab);
+                shell.SelectedTab = tab;
+
+                var card = new ConnectingCard { DataContext = shell };
+
+                var window = LayoutHarness.HostAtMinimumSize(
+                    card,
+                    LayoutHarness.SessionScreenWidth(sidebarVisible: true),
+                    LayoutHarness.SessionScreenHeight);
+
+                try
+                {
+                    body(card);
+                }
+                finally
+                {
+                    window.Close();
+                }
+            },
+            Token);
+
     /// <summary>Lays the host-key decision out in the rectangle it is drawn over.</summary>
     /// <remarks>
     /// <para>