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Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
https://tabby.sh/ https://tabby.sh/
- block_dagger 1y agoWhy another terminal?
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoThere's a set of features in the README that you can view if you follow the link: - 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).
- anon1395 1y ago- extra slowness
- fdsfdsfdsaasd 1y ago> Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager Honestly, ssh re-implemented "open source" in javascript goes beyond anti-feature and back around into "useful for security research".
- Mk2000 1y agoIf modern means slow, laggy and made with js then sure
- OccamsMirror 1y agoIt does!
- thechao 1y agoWell sign me up with buggy two factor!
- nylonstrung 1y agoThis is a rebrand of terminus
- __bjoernd 1y agoHow does it compare to iterm2 or kitty?
- thefz 1y agoIt's cross platform
- akaike 1y agoIt's cool, but when I tested it last time, it was very, very laggy and very slow. Not sure if that's the definition of "modern".
- BlindEyeHalo 1y agoConsidering all apps become more slow and laggy every year it seems on point.
- Semaphor 1y agoTerminus 2019, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988557 Tabby 2021, 107 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767 Tabby 2023, 92 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111397 Tabby 2023, 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607323
- h4ch1 1y agoWaiter waiter, more core applications using Electron! Just needed these two reasons to not even try it out. * Google Analytics on by default * >100mb download For a native terminal I'll happily use kitty or ghostty For a SSH client Zoc (https://www.emtec.com/zoc/ https://www.emtec.com/zoc/) hasn't disappointed me yet, and even then I almost just always ssh through my terminal.
- ramon156 1y agoDo people still use alacrity? It still feels like the most sane choice, although kitty and ghostty's rendering seems more robust. I guess I'll need to give them a go sometime
- h4ch1 1y agoLast I personally used Alacritty was 3-4 years back on Linux w/ wayland got some weird rendering bugs, switched to st (https://st.suckless.org/ https://st.suckless.org/) for a good while. When I got a Macbook last year, I did a "best terminal macos" search and evaluated multiple terminals; kitty, ghostty, iterm2 and wezterm. settled on ghostty because it just felt faster for terminal refreshes when I use vite, had tabs, could easily theme it to use ayu-dark. Nothing too extreme, just personal reasons iterm2 was fine as well, nothing special; wezterm and kitty just felt like linux apps that were on macos as well. YMMV.
- k_bx 1y agoBeen driving my use for the last year or so, perfect as a thin wrapper around tmux (which is the same on macOS and Linux). I'll give iTerm2 another try, has many shiny features like touchID-sudo and such, otherwise don't understand what could possibly be better in ghostty/kitty
- exq 1y agoI still do. It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does what I need it to, and does it well.
- mzajc 1y ago> Tabby (formerly Terminus) Apparently this has nothing to do with the other terminus [0]? [0]: https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/terminus https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/terminus
- mminer237 1y agoYes, that's why they renamed it: https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/4088 https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/4088
- dsign 1y agoI've used it for a few years; can't complain really. Perhaps it's a bit slow, but I don't notice because I already use VSCode and IntelliJ and have enteprise tooling and Teams in my Mac, so if I were to run a piece of fast software it will probably feel jarring and seizure-inducing.
- tonnydourado 1y agoOf all the things I never wanted, a terminal implemented on JavaScript is easily on the top 10 that I never wanted the most. For Windows, Windows Terminal is pretty ok.
- sevg 1y agoHow does this have so many stars? As much as ghostty and kitty combined, even though I hadn’t heard of it until today.
- benrutter 1y agoI tried using this a couple years ago - the big issue I had with it is that it's very slow to render text. I'd often accidentally try to print out something that was much longer than I had realised, and then be stuck with Tabby frozen for serveral minutes while it printed everything out. If you're just using the terminal to run a few commands, and not working in it a lot, it's a pretty tool, and clearly built with a lot of love.
- fdsfdsfdsaasd 1y ago> We scanned 1338 dependencies and found 94 problems. Just what I want in my terminal app. I don't like the endless "security audit" noise, but there are 13 critical issues, some dating back 4 years, and including cryptogrpahy-related flaws (and that's just the top-level yarn.lock).
- ErikBjare 1y agoWhat do you mean "just the top-level yarn.lock", doesn't it include all the resolved dependencies?
- InfinityByTen 1y agoI actually was looking for a modern age terminal recently, even though I'm sort of happy with how xfce4-terminal has worked for me with regards to tabs and customization. I was trying to make ssh work on tabby when I realised it's just a glorified browser, I stopped in my tracks and purged the thing. I do enjoy the UX of moving around tabs and changing my mental contexts, but this is too much a price to pay. I don't mind download sizes as long as the application is performant, customizable, and don't have unnecessary backdoors.
- a022311 1y agoThis was my first terminal emulator when I got started with Linux (I skipped GNOME's one because it was completely uncustomizable). It's got many useful features and I'd compare it to Windows Terminal, but the 3 second startup times (with a good computer) were too much. After many other terminals I've now settled on Ghostty which provides the customization options I need and starts instantly. The most useful feature of Tabby which I can't find elsewhere is connecting to remote servers with file upload/download support and serial consoles (useful for people working with embedded systems).
- anon1395 1y ago>gnome's terminal emulator is uncustomizable Right-click the terminal area and select "Settings". Then go to the "General" tab where there should be a setting for the color scheme.
- a022311 1y agoIIRC back when I was using it that wasn't possible. It has improved a lot recently. (Technically it didn't improve, it was just replaced with a similar, better one, kgx [0] in GNOME 42) [0]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console
- grishka 1y ago> for the modern age Of course it's an Electron app... Sigh.
- pointlessone 1y agoI wonder if it chokes on a big c project build or tailing a webserver log.