Top 14 Terminal Emulators for Linux (With Extra Features or Amazing Looks)

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Gnome Terminator

Terminator is decently popular terminal emulator which is still being maintained (moved from Launchpad to GitHub).

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2

Guake terminal

Guake terminal was originally inspired by an FPS game Quake. Unlike some other terminal emulators, it works as an overlay on every other active window.

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3

Tilix

Tilix Terminal offers a similar drop-down experience that you find with Guake – but it also lets you have multiple terminal windows in tiling mode.

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4

Hyper

Hyper is yet another interesting terminal emulator that is built on web technologies. It doesn’t provide a unique user experience, but looks quite different and offers a ton of customization options.

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5

tilda terminal emulator

Tilda is another drop-down GTK-based terminal emulator. Unlike some others, it focuses on providing an integrated search bar which you can toggle and also lets you customize many things.

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If you’re not looking particularly for a terminal emulator to help you get your work done faster, eDEX-UI is something that you must try.

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Cool Retro Term

Cool Retro Terminal is a unique terminal emulator that provides you with a look of a vintage cathode ray tube monitor.

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8

Alacritty

Alacritty can be installed using package managers says the official GitHub page, but I couldn’t find it in the default repository or synaptic package manager on Linux Mint 20.1.

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9

Konsole

If you’re utilizing any Ubuntu-based GNOME distribution, it already comes baked in. It may not be as customizable as Konsole (depends on what you’re doing) but it lets you configure most of the important aspects of the terminal easily.

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10

GNOME Terminal

It basically provides you multiple GNOME terminals in one window. You can easily group and re-group terminal windows with the help of it. You may feel like using a tiling window manager but with some restrictions.

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11

Yakuake

Yakuake is yet another impressive terminal emulator which can replace Guake depending on what you like. It is based on KDE’s Konsole technologies which is also a powerful terminal emulator that comes loaded by default with KDE Desktop.

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12

KiTTY

Kitty is apparently an underrated and a popular option among terminal emulator users that I seemed to have missed in the first version of this article.

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13

ST - Simple Terminal

Simple Terminal or popularly known as st is an alternative for users who dislike bloated terminal emulators like xterm or rxvt.

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14

xterm

XTERM is one of the most popular terminal emulators out there. Even though it might seem to be a bloated option when compared to st, it’s still a decent option that you can try for X Window System.

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