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• Latest release
• Repositories: Debian/Ubuntu-based, RPM-based
• Latest nightly build

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Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux

• Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager
• Integrated serial terminal
• Theming and color schemes
• Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
• Split panes
• Remembers your tabs
• PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support
• Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem
• Full Unicode support including double-width characters
• Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
• Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
• Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration
• SSH, SFTP and Telnet client available as a web app (also self-hosted).

Contents

• What Tabby is and isn't
• Terminal features
• SSH Client
• Serial Terminal
• Portable
• Plugins
• Themes
• Contributing

What Tabby is and isn't

• Tabby is an alternative to Windows' standard terminal (conhost), PowerShell ISE, PuTTY, macOS Terminal.app and iTerm

• Tabby is not a new shell or a MinGW or Cygwin replacement. Neither is it lightweight - if RAM usage is of importance, consider Conemu or Alacritty

Terminal features

• A V220 terminal + various extensions
• Multiple nested split panes
• Tabs on any side of the window
• Optional dockable window with a global spawn hotkey ("Quake console")
• Progress detection
• Notification on process completion
• Bracketed paste, multiline paste warnings
• Font ligatures
• Custom shell profiles
• Optional RMB paste and copy-on select (PuTTY style)

SSH Client

• SSH2 client with a connection manager
• X11 and port forwarding
• Automatic jump host management
• Agent forwarding (incl. Pageant and Windows native OpenSSH Agent)
• Login scripts

Serial Terminal

• Saved connections
• Readline input support
• Optional hex byte-by-byte input and hexdump output
• Newline conversion
• Automatic reconnection

Portable

Tabby will run as a portable app on Windows, if you create a data folder in the same location where Tabby.exe lives.

Plugins

Plugins and themes can be installed directly from the Settings view inside Tabby.

• docker - connect to Docker containers
• title-control - allows modifying the title of the terminal tabs by providing a prefix, suffix, and/or strings to be removed
• quick-cmds - quickly send commands to one or all terminal tabs
• save-output - record terminal output into a file
• sync-config - sync the config to Gist or Gitee
• clippy - an example plugin which annoys you all the time
• workspace-manager - allows creating custom workspace profiles based on the given config
• search-in-browser - opens default system browser with a text selected from the Tabby's tab

Themes

• hype - a Hyper inspired theme
• relaxed - the Relaxed theme for Tabby
• gruvbox
• windows10
• altair

Sponsors

packagecloud has provided free Debian/RPM repository hosting

keygen has provided free release & auto-update hosting

Contributing

Pull requests and plugins are welcome!

See HACKING.md and API docs for information of how the project is laid out, and a very brief plugin development tutorial.

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Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!