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Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows 10, 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
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Tabby is an alternative to Windows' standard terminal (conhost), PowerShell ISE, PuTTY, macOS Terminal.app and iTerm
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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
- sftp-tab - open sftp tab for ssh connection like SecureCRT
- background - change Tabby background image and more...
- highlight - Tabby terminal keyword highlight plugin
- web-auth-handler - In-app web authentication popups (Built primarily for warpgate in-browser auth)
Themes
- hype - a Hyper inspired theme
- relaxed - the Relaxed theme for Tabby
- gruvbox
- windows10
- altair
- catppuccin - Soothing pastel theme for Tabby
- noctis - color themes inspired by Noctis VS Code theme
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.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!