Top 7 Best Linux Terminals

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Alacritty Landing Page

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Alacritty

Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator.

You should be able to find Alacritty in your distribution’s repositories, but you can also download Precompiled binaries from Alacritty’s GitHub releases page. Apart from Linux, Alacritty also runs on Windows, macOS, and *BSD.

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Yakuake Landing Page

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Yakuake

Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

Yakuake is one of the most popular drop-down terminals because it’s smooth, configurable, skinnable, and has a tabbed interface. The only thing you might not like about it is the fact that it’s based on KDE Konsole.

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URxvt Landing Page

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URxvt

rxvt-unicode, version 9.16, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix ...

URxvt doesn’t look too sexy in its default configuration, but you can make it look however you want with command-line arguments or Xresources, a user-level configuration dotfile that’s typically located in ~/.Xresources. The ArchWiki does a great job of explaining the most important configuration options, and the man page covers the rest.

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Termite Terminal Landing Page

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Termite Terminal

NOTE: Termite Terminal has been discontinued.

A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or...

Just like VIM, Termite has two primary modes of operation—Insert and Selection—and it takes some time to get used to them if you have no previous experience with VIM. But once you spend some time with it, you’ll be rewarded with increased productivity and flexibility.

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St Landing Page

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St

Free structural analysis software for PC and Mac

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Gnome Terminator Landing Page

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Gnome Terminator

Terminator is one of the most useful and dynamic terminal emulators for Unix based operating systems.

Are you the type of person who always has more than one terminal open? If so, Terminator might just be the ideal Linux terminal for you because it allows you to arrange multiple terminals in a grid. You can reorder individual terminal windows by dragging and dropping them to the desired place or accomplish the same with keyboard shortcuts.

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KiTTY Landing Page

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KiTTY

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.

Kitty is a keyboard-oriented terminal that was designed to be simple, modular, and hackable. It supports GPU rendering for smooth scrolling, and its list of features includes everything from Unicode support to OpenType ligatures to graphics.

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