Quickstart

1. There are two ways to get Wave:
   • Download Wave and drag it into your Application folder.
   • For Homebrew users, run brew install --cask wave
2. If using brew, get brew commands to work by adding the shellenv command to your .bashrc or .zshrc, e.g. echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.bashrc

1. Download the appropriate package for your system.
2. Install the package using one of the following methods.

1. Download the .zip Linux package for Wave.
2. In your terminal, navigate to the location where you want to install Wave. Then, run the following commands to create a folder and extract the contents of the .zip file.

mkdir wave
unzip Waveterm-Linux.zip -d wave

3. Run the application: ./Wave

Optional: You can create a .desktop file, allowing you to launch Wave directly. After doing the above steps, create a file named Wave.desktop, and add the following, modifying the Exec and Icon paths to point to your Wave installation:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Wave
Icon= /path/to/Wave-linux-*/resources/app/public/waveterm.icns
Exec=/path/to/Wave-linux-*/Wave
# setting this to true will launch an extra terminal to run the Wave command
Terminal=false

Run desktop-file-validate Wave.desktop to validate that the desktop entry is correct, then run sudo cp Wave.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/Wave.desktop to copy the entry into your application list. After restarting your desktop environment (or your computer), Wave should be visible in your desktop application list. You can now launch Wave directly from your desktop environment. The .desktop file scheme is supported by the most commonly used desktop environments such as GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc. If you encounter issues, you can get help in our Discord or by opening an issue on Github.

Wave has support for WSL, tested on Ubuntu and Kali distros

1. Download the .zip Linux package for Wave.
   • In the terminal, use wget <DOWNLOAD_URL>
2. Navigate to the location where you want to install Wave. Then, run the following commands to create a folder and extract the contents of the .zip file.

mkdir wave
unzip Waveterm-Linux.zip -d wave

3. Change to the Wave directory cd wave
4. Run the application: ./Wave

if you run into issues, try running the following 2 commands:

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 \
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnss3-dev libxss-dev
export DISPLAY=:0 

The block headers give information about the command and its status. You’ll see the line “number” (useful for referring to commands from the CLI), a status indicator, and a timestamp. The next line shows what server the command was run against (local means your local machine), the current working directory, and then the command. When you’re in a git directory or a python venv you’ll also get additional status showing the git branch or the environment name.

When a command is running, you can interact with it like normal when the command has focus. When commands are initially run they get focus by default, and when they terminate they give focus back to the input box. You can easily shift focus between your commands or the input box using the mouse or “Cmd-I” to focus the input box, and “Cmd-L” to focus a command line. Note that Cmd-I will work in any context to focus the input box. To shift the focus between commands you can use the mouse or “Cmd-UpArrow” / “Cmd-DownArrow” (or Cmd-PageUp/Cmd-PageDown) will move the focus between commands. When the input box has focus, pressing “return” will always scroll the screen to the bottom.

So far we’ve been working in one tab. You can easily create a new tab by clicking the “+” in the tab bar, or by pressing “Cmd-T”. Switching between tabs can be done with the mouse or by using “Cmd-[digit]” to switch to the nth tab. Cmd-LeftArrow and Cmd-RightArrow will also work to change tabs.

Wave also has the concept of workspaces. A workspace is just a set of tabs. You can see your workspaces listed in the left column of the UI. You start with 1 workspace named “default”. You can easily create a new workspace by clicking on the ”+” left bar next to the label “Workspaces” or by using a “slash-command” (we’ll discuss those later). Each workspace is independent from the others. You can use workspaces to set up custom sets of tabs for different projects, common configurations, or different remote machines. In the future, Wave will support sharing workspaces with your team or having a joint shared workspace that everyone can view and contribute to.

Workspaces and tabs are persistent. The history and state of each tab is preserved across reboots, network disconnections, remote machine reboots, and time. Any command you’ve ever run in Wave will be remembered (unless of course you choose to delete it).