The 10 Best Linux Terminal Emulators

1

GNOME Terminal

GNOME terminal offers support for multiple profiles, which comes in handy if you need to set different profiles for different tasks. Its title bar nicely styles to match the GTK theme you might be using in your Linux distro. Another great feature I find interesting in the GNOME terminal is that it makes links clickable.

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2

Gnome Terminator

It is designed for heavy-duty command-line multitaskers. It has a preferences dialog box with many settings that make it easy to customize and make it more presentable. Terminator allows you to break up a window into multiple levels of horizontal or vertical splits and resize them. You can also define groups of windows, where a text in one terminator window is broadcast to all the other terminator windows in a group.

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3

Guake

The Guake terminal emulator allows you to run instant commands without hiding the current application window. It stacks over the current application you are running instead of replacing it with the Guake terminal window. It is the best terminal emulator for users who like to customize a lot. Its default hotkeys are F12 to launch and F11 for fullscreen mode.

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4

Cool Retro Term

Some of the interesting visual settings to choose from include; IBM DOS, Vintage, Monochrome Green, Default Amber, and Futuristic. You can also choose from several character sets and older fonts like the cyan, the all-caps Apple II, or you can replicate the classic Zenith monitors. If you want a slice and feel of the past, then the Cool Retro terminal is a beautiful emulator to use.

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5

Terminology

Terminology emulator is useful for Linux users who are entirely reliant on the terminal emulator for day-to-day tasks. If you detest navigation on GUI, then Terminology is the emulator for you. An outstanding feature of Terminology is the functionality to preview files, images, and videos from within the terminal. You can use the tycat <filename> command to preview files within Terminology. It is also available as a snap.

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6

Konsole

One unique feature of Konsole is its support for native languages. You can easily switch to a native language of your choice like Russian, Arabic, Hindi, etc. It has support for a default fallback language. You can also save your current working path in a bookmark. You can open multiple tabs in each Konsole window terminal. Konsole has native support for KDE applications and provides an embedded terminal for KDE applications like Kate, Konqueror, etc. If you work from many directories, then the bookmarking feature for directories, file paths, and SSH will come in handy.

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7

xterm

XTERM is the default emulator for the X window system. XTERM is a good choice for minimal Linux installations. Its minimalist approach makes it a good choice among many Linux users.

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8

ST - Simple Terminal

The st or Simple Terminal emulator gives you precisely what you ask for. ” A simple terminal emulator to interact with your Linux distro.”

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9

Alacritty

Alacritty can be considered by some a new kid in the block because of its “beta” phase status. Some features that might be of interest are the ability to click through a URL using a keyboard, perform a search, and copy text to the clipboard. You can also try the Vi search, and search functionality allows you to find anything in the Alacritty scrollback buffer. You can also try out the hint functionality.

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10

KiTTY

The Kitty emulator is an excellent option for keyboard power users. The key feature of Kitty that makes it into this list is the GPU-based development. It offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load, and it decreases CPU utilization which improves scrolling and general responsiveness.

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11

rxvt-unicode

The key feature of rxvt-Unicode is that it is rock solid as software. It hardly crashes and is free of glitches. Experienced Linux users also prefer it because the main rxvt-Unicode program runs as a daemon, conserving system resources. Developers might love to try its support of Perl extensions which might increase productivity.

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The list is by no means exhaustive in any way. There are many Linux terminal emulators with dedicated following and users. Other terminal emulators that could have easily made it into my list include; xfce4-terminal, PuTTY, Tilda, or Yakuake. The default terminal emulator in Linux distros is always good enough for many users. Nailing down a favorite emulator requires you to test several emulators before you settle for one. Your choice can be informed by the features you desire in an emulator and the windows system or desktop environment you are running. Feel free to suggest the emulator you are running so that we can give it a spin.

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13

PuTTY

The list is by no means exhaustive in any way. There are many Linux terminal emulators with dedicated following and users. Other terminal emulators that could have easily made it into my list include; xfce4-terminal, PuTTY, Tilda, or Yakuake. The default terminal emulator in Linux distros is always good enough for many users. Nailing down a favorite emulator requires you to test several emulators before you settle for one. Your choice can be informed by the features you desire in an emulator and the windows system or desktop environment you are running. Feel free to suggest the emulator you are running so that we can give it a spin.

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tilda terminal emulator

The list is by no means exhaustive in any way. There are many Linux terminal emulators with dedicated following and users. Other terminal emulators that could have easily made it into my list include; xfce4-terminal, PuTTY, Tilda, or Yakuake. The default terminal emulator in Linux distros is always good enough for many users. Nailing down a favorite emulator requires you to test several emulators before you settle for one. Your choice can be informed by the features you desire in an emulator and the windows system or desktop environment you are running. Feel free to suggest the emulator you are running so that we can give it a spin.

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15

Yakuake

The list is by no means exhaustive in any way. There are many Linux terminal emulators with dedicated following and users. Other terminal emulators that could have easily made it into my list include; xfce4-terminal, PuTTY, Tilda, or Yakuake. The default terminal emulator in Linux distros is always good enough for many users. Nailing down a favorite emulator requires you to test several emulators before you settle for one. Your choice can be informed by the features you desire in an emulator and the windows system or desktop environment you are running. Feel free to suggest the emulator you are running so that we can give it a spin.

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