Tabby is a terminal emulator that has the ability to manage multiple shell sessions within a single window. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Tabby on Linux Mint.
Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.
Install the dependencies required for Tabby by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnutls28-dev libjson-glib-dev
Clone the Tabby repository from Github by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/bertvandepoel/tabby.git
Navigate to the cloned Tabby directory by running the following command:
cd tabby
Build and install Tabby by running the following commands:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Verify that Tabby has been installed by running the following command:
tabby --version
This should display the version number of Tabby.
Launch Tabby by running the following command:
tabby
This will launch Tabby in the terminal.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Tabby on Linux Mint. Tabby is a powerful terminal emulator that allows you to manage multiple shell sessions in a single window, which can greatly improve your productivity.
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