Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client.
Tabby has a large feature set.
This is free and open source software.
Key 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).
- Integrated SSH client and connection manager:
- SSH2 client with a connection manager.
- X11 and port forwarding.
- Automatic jump host management.
- Agent forwarding (including Pageant and Windows native OpenSSH Agent).
- Login scripts.
- Integrated serial terminal:
- Multiple connection profiles.
- Readline input support.
- Text, readline and byte-by-byte input modes.
- Text and hexdump output modes.
- Zmodem.
- Non-standard baud rates.
- Newline conversion.
- Automatic reconnection.
- Theming and color schemes.
- Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts.
- Split panes.
- Remembers your tabs.
- PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, 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.
- Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration.
- Extensible via plugins (in JavaScript).
- Theming which are customizable with CSS. Color schemes are included.
- Shell profiles.
- Font ligatures and font fallback.
- Clickable URLs, IPs and paths.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink).
Website: tabby.sh
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Eugene Pankov and contributors
License: MIT License
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