Gobby is a free and open source collaborative text editor for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It comes with realtime collaboration, encrypted connections, group chat, Sophisticated Access Control Lists, Zeroconf and unicode support, list users joined the session, shows cursors of remote users, syntax highlighting, auto indentation and more. It is released under ISC License.
How to Install Gobby on Ubuntu Linux
Gobby text editor is available as a flatpak file from the remote flathub store repository. If you don’t have then, first install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart your system after the installation. Follow below flatpak and flathub installation tutorial for instructions.
Install flatpak and flathub
Now open the terminal application using the ctrl+alt+t keys or via the applications menu and run below Gobby text editor flatpak install command. It will install the latest version of Gobby on your system.
flatpak install flathub de._0x539.gobby
After that open Gobby using below command.
flatpak run de._0x539.gobby
And uninstall Gobby using
sudo flatpak uninstall de._0x539.gobby
That’s it.
