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Alacritty
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Blazing fast rendering with GPU-accelerated
Written in Rust with a philosophy focusing on speed and simplicity, Alacritty is one of the fastest terminal emulators out there.
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Cannot into ligatures
Alacritty does not support ligatures in Fira Code, Iosevka etc.
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Looks good
Alacritty looks very slick on Linux, especially with GNOME or i3.
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Unreliable Font Rendering
Like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get.
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Simple configuration
The configuration file is very well made and easy to use. You can fine tune your preferences to perfection in a matter of minutes.
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Sacrifices basic features for raw performance
The Suzuki GSXR of terminals. Or your ditzy, blonde high school cheerleader; fast and pretty but not a lot going on under the hood. Eschews a negative developmental philosophy towards including said functionality, with the official reason cited in project documentation as "Not within the realm of a terminal emulator" and ostensibly, "best left up to other tools such as terminal multiplexers" [such as screen or tmux]. Which is unfortunate when you factor in speed against terminal with the functionality built in vs their reliance on 3rd party tools: tmux on alacritty: 'find /usr' time: 3.234s, cpu: 72% tmux on konsole: find /usr' time: 1.777s, cpu: 96% See issue here.
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Comprehensive font options
Alacritty can be configured to adjust line spacing (height), letter spacing (width), and individual character horizontal/vertical positions.
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Has support for image previews in w3m and ranger
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Has text ref-low when window is resized
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Fast and simple but with true color support
It's simple and fast like xterm or urxvt but with truecolor support which is a big plus if you use a terminal based code editor. Basically Alacritty has all the features you need and nothing you don't (if you're using tmux for multiplexing).
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Font Ligatures:
No
GPU Acceleration:
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Yes, via automatically reloading YAML configuration file
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Xfce4 terminal
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Good for systems with low specs
Like other applications included in the Xfce package, this terminal emulator is very lightweight and doesn't require many resources to run. This makes it perfect for systems that have low specs.
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Cannot set text color for character under cursor to background color
Suppose you have a dark background with a light cursor and light foreground color: the light cursor will cover up whatever character it is on, so that you cannot read it. There is no option to set the foreground color for the character under the cursor to what is normally the background color. Such an option would allow you to read the character under the cursor.
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True transparency
You can set the transparency of the Xfce4 terminal on any amount you want, out of the box.
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Execution in xfce4-terminal - e mode is not always functional
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Tabs support
Xfce4 fully supports tabs and tab-based navigation.
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Resizing text resizes window
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Almost everything is customizable
You can configure size, color, background, etc.
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No profiles
There's no profiles or profile-based customization in Xfce-terminal.
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Composition effects
Xfce4 terminal takes advantage of xfce composition effects.
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Can't scroll on spamming text
When text generates too fast, you can't scroll it, so you just can't read anything in such moments.
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Fast rendering
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Does not support sixel images
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Can be switched to a drop-down terminal
You can configure the Xfce-terminal to act as a dropdown terminal if you want, which makes for greater ease of use.
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Terminology
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Configuration is sometimes complicated and non-obvious
There's a "Settings" menu for configuration, but more options there would make it easier. Downloading themes and extensions from the official repo would be a big plus.
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Scalable fonts
Font size in Terminology automatically scales according to window size. When you resize the window, so does the text.
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No True-Color support
Not able to display a modern full range of colors, yet.
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Looks smashing
Terminals are often very dull looks wise, not so with terminology.
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Scrollback is completely nroken
Scrolling back the emulator inserts random lines from other places in the scrollback buffer in between the actuall output lines. Thus it is impossible to see a correct copy of the previous output.
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In-terminal video, picture and thumbnail support
Thumbnails, pictures, and videos can all be rendered in-terminal, based on the directory listing or mouse interactions. For instance, using "ls" on a picture folder will produce a list of thumbnails instead of only the filenames.
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No scrollbar
The lack of scrollbar in Terminology makes navigation difficult. But you can use keys for it.
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Splitable
You can split windows, like in terminator.
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Too many bells and whistles
Some people feel that Terminology has too many features that are not suited for a terminal, but for a window manager instead. For instance, viewing thumbnails, watching videos and gifs, and other similarly flashy things just feel like eye candy and should not be part of a terminal emulator.
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Visually customizable
It is very customizable in every aspect of the visual options.
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Integrates well with Enlightenment WM
Terminology is part of the Enlightenment WM packages. As such, it integrates really well with Enlightenment and other tools in the package.
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Block copy
You can copy text in blocks.
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Copyfree licensing
Terminology uses the Simplified BSD License. As it is a copyfree license, it tends to minimize license incompatibilities, legal compliance requirements, and various other complexities that may make it difficult to understand certain licenses.
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rxvt-unicode
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Low memory usage
Rxvt-unicode uses very little memory and takes a lightweight approach without losing many important functionalities. A single instance of urxvt takes about 6.5MB-8MB of RAM.
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Unicode characters that are too wide are blanked instead of clipped
If a character in a backup font is wider than the base font, urxvt substitutes the non-displayable character. A large letter space will show the wide characters, but the result is not reasonably spaced. There is a patch from 2014 that the urxvt maintainer will not merge.
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Can be daemonized to reduce resource usage
For those who want to lower their system's resource usage, rxvt-unicode allows for daemonization. This way you can run several instances of urxvt inside a single process.
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Requires work to look acceptable
Out of the box, rxvt-unicode is not too pleasant to look at. Some understanding of Xresources is required for updating its appearance. That being said, the experience of customizing it can be very rewarding.
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Supports terminal transparency
Changing the transparency of the terminal is allowed for in rxvt-unicode. This not only makes for eye candy but is also good for GUI usability.
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Requires work to configure useful functionality (clickable URL's, font scaling, tabs)
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Minimum dependencies and simple text config
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In daemon mode you can lose all your terminals
Because of sharing the same process terminal windows cannot be killed without sacrificing all other open windows. That becomes even more dangerous if you use multiple graphical managers without overriding socket with RXVT_SOCKET.
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Supports multiple font types
Multiple font types can be displayed flawlessly in rxvt-unicode.
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Unicode rendering is buggy
There are a few references to urxvt's buggy rendering, such as unicode combining characters, which bled through during scrolling.
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Handles bold text colour properly
Displays characters with text attribute bold actually as bold glyphs.
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Bloated
Exists because Xterm is complete trash. Although it has a lot of features, you will most likely never use them all.
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High performance
Rxvt-unicode is much faster than most alternatives.
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No support yet for 24-bit "True Color"
Though this is still not available, you can download the patched version for 24bit, here.
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Unicode support
International language support is provided through Unicode.
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Font size cannot be changed on the fly with the mousewheel
Sometimes you may need to enlarge the font to improve readability, or shrink it to have more real estate and "hawk's eye" view of data. In rxvt you need to change the configuration file or use these commands: $ function fontsize {printf '\33]50;%s%d\007' "xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:size=$1::antialias=false"} $ fontsize 22
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Proper wrapping support
During selection and pasting wrapped text doesn't break into lines at place of wrapping.
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No option to have a "reverse color" cursor
While you can choose the color of the cursor and the character under the cursor, there's no automatic "reverse color" for the cursor. This makes it impossible to use rxvt-unicode if you have a light background terminal and a dark background editor.
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Fast text rendering
Rxvt-unicode has very fast text rendering, being able to render hundreds of MB of text in a very short time.
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Built-in Perl interpreter
It has a built-in Perl interpreter, meaning that no install is needed. Simply run urxvtperl.
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WezTerm
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Supports multiple windows, tabs, splits/panes
tmux-like functionality with native UI even on Windows systems allows managing multiple terminal sessions how you like.
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Lua learning curve for config
The only reason it would be difficult to recommend is that it's for experienced programmers.
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Looks good
Highly customizable appearance and comes with over 240 built-in color schemes.
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Open Source and Free
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Supports font ligatures and stylistic sets
Ships with JetBrains Mono, a modern programmers font, so that you can enjoy modern typographical features such as contextual ligatures and font variations/stylistic sets in your terminal environment.
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GPU Accelerated
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Yes, with control over shaping and stylistic sets
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Lua based live reloading configuration
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LXTerminal
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Lightweight
LXTerm is the official terminal for the LXDE desktop environment, which is a very light DE in itself. So LXTerminal is a very good choice for lower-end systems.
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Not very customizable
LXTerminal, like XTerminal and UXTerminal, is not very customizable and extendable (at least not as much as other terminal emulators).
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Multiple tabs support
LXTerminal supports working with multiple tabs and tab-based navigation.
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Built-in transparency
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Customizable keyboard shortcuts
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Lighhtweight and ticks most boxes.
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Customize-able background/foreground colors
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tmux
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Easily split panes
There is a keyboard shortcut that makes it easy to split a window and create more panes.
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Poorly designed key binding
Counter-intuitive keyboard shortcuts make tmux very hard to use and learn.
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Windows linked to sessions
tmux calls the individual shell instances windows. They are displayed like tabs in the status line. These windows can be shared between different sessions, so that any given shell instance can be in any number of tmux sessions used for different purposes or by different users. This allows configurations like the following example: User A: wAB, wA1, wA2; User B: wB1, wAB, wB2
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Bad scrolling support
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Preserve the state
As long as you don't close your session, you may even lose your SSH connection, it'll keep your state just as it was. So you can resume where you left off (via tmux attach).
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No builtin telnet or serial support
It's considered bloat by the maintainers and for this reason there's no builtin support for them.
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Maximize screen space
As a tiling window manager, it'll make use of all the space. As you have multiple workspaces and you can resize, etc. you can adjust to see what matters most.
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Frequently updated
Tmux is in a state of constant development. Updates are frequent and bug reports usually get an answer within days.
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Customizable
Open ~/.tmux.conf to get started. You can customize keybindings, the bottom status bar, color schemes, the clock screen, your time zone, and more.
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Mouse support
Mouse support can optionally be enabled, allowing e.g. scrolling with the mouse wheel, or switching panes with mouse clicks.
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Only need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts and commands to make much headway
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Tilda
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Highly customizable
There are tons of customizations you can make: from adding colors to text, turning backgrounds transparent, setting the size to be "maximized", toggling scrollbar on and off, adjusting orientation/borders/animation, etc.
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Contains some annoying bugs
Tilda can be buggy at times. For example, if you don't close it before shutdown, it may prompt you to reconfigure it all over again on the next boot.
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Easily accessible drop-down
The drop-down function in Tilda does not get in the way and can be accessed at any time with a keyboard shortcut.
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Few dependencies
Tilda is a very minimal and lean terminal emulator. It requires very few dependencies and the amount of resources needed is small.
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Supports transparency
You can monitor information displayed by applications under Tilda.
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Tabs support
Tilda supports tabs. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn.
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Sakura
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Lightweight
Sakura has very few dependencies, it's very lightweight, and great if your computer does not have many resources.
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libvte/gtk
It has gnome dependencies.
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True colour support
Supports full 24-bit color.
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Doesn't provide many configuration options
Sakura does not have any advanced configuration capabilities.
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Great unicode support
Even shows combining chars correctly.
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Few dependencies
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Starts quickly even on lower-end machines
Sakura's quick start-up time becomes noticeable with lower-end machine's such as Eeepc 1015PX (Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM).
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Tab support
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Easy zoom
Sakura supports zooming through keyboard keys (Ctrl+'+' to zoom in and Ctrl+'-' to zoom out).
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Ready for wayland
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LilyTerm
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Support for tabbing
You can also color and reorder tabs, as well as manipulate tabs through keybindings.
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Annoying behaviors
The default configuration may have some annoying behaviors (that can be removed by changing the default config). Such include asking for confirmation when reusing an existing window or when starting the terminal to launch a specific command.
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Transparency support improves usability
LilyTerm has true transparency support, making for better GUI usability.
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Change encoding on-the-fly
LilyTerm can change encoding on-the-fly. UTF-8 is the default encoding.
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Lightweight
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator that aims to be as lightweight as possible. It requires minimal system resources and has very few dependencies.
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Fullscreen support
LilyTerm has fullscreen support which improves visibility.
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Extraterm
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speed
not the fastest ever, but for me its a good comprimise of features vs performance
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Cross platform
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Supports tab, splits and panes
You can set up your own layout with multiple splits and tabs.
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Shell integration
The shell integration makes it possible to group in command output in "frames" which show success/failure.
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Image support
You can view images and other data types like audio directly in the terminal.
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Keyboard based text selection
It is possible to go into a cursor mode where you can select text just like in a text editor. It even supports multiple cursors.
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Global shortcuts
You can configure global shortcuts to open the terminal.
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Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
Just like Sublime, Atom and VSCode you can easily search and find commands from the drop down Command Palette.
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Tilix
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Multiple sessions inside a single window
In addition to tiling, Tilix supports placing separate sessions in tabs or switching from one to another through a sidebar.
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Unmaintained
Bugs and pull requests are not processed.
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Tiling makes for ease of use
The user can split terminals horizontally or vertically, according to their needs or preferences.
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No font ligatures
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Integrates nicely into GNOME 3
Tilix follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and uses the UI patterns of this desktop environment.
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Takes a bit more memory than Gnome terminal
Would've expected this to be more lightweight.
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Good alternative to Terminator
Tiling and ability to type into multiple terminals simultaneously is Terminator's 2 most significant features. Tilix has them as well.
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Heavyweight
Tilix has quite a lot of dependencies and takes ~100MB of RAM when running.
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Configurable shortcuts
Many actions in Tilix can be triggered with configurable shortcuts.
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GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
Tilix follows GNOME HIG whereas gnome-terminal doesn't. GNOME should use Tilix as their default terminal.
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Transparent background
Unlike the standard GNOME Terminal, Tilix supports configurable background transparency.
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Fancy looks
Tilix has that new GNOME look, with a HeaderBar. It can also be disabled.
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Able to write into multiple terminals simultaneously
Inside a session, you can select multiple terminals, which will receive the same input simultaneously.
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Can be used as a drop-down terminal
The new 1.30 version of Tilix supports a quake mode enabling it to work as a drop-down terminal.
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Extremely fast
As fast as gnome-terminal, if not faster.
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Copy on select
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Faster than Gnome Terminal
When running commands it feels snappier.
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Easy
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Copy as HTML
You can copy text from the terminal as HTML for embedding in web settings.
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Lightweight
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Solarized themes built-in
Great support for solarized color schemes, and no setup is involved.
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Terminus can notify you about finished tasks and perform actions based on terminal output
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Guake
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Drop-down terminal
You can hit F12 (by default, though it's customizable) to open a terminal overlay, Quake-style, as a drop-down from the top of the screen.
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Not cross-platform
Linux only, and additionally targeting GTK3.
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Supports transparency
Transparency is particularly useful for when you need to refer to the information displayed by application under Guake window.
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Not very responsive
Occasionally, Guake slows down and is not very responsive.
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Hotkey support
Guake is very fast and easy to open with a customizable hotkey, meaning there's no fiddling with menus or icons.
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No font ligature
Guake uses vte for its terminal emulation, and vte simply doesn't support font ligature (yes, it's 2019). This is what its maintainer thinks about it. He really thinks supporting font ligature breaks terminal's grid, like he doesn't understand a font that's monospace is a monospace no matter if it has ligature or not.
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Extremely customizable
Guake's appearance is very customizable: from the transparency to the width and height of the window. You can also choose which key to use for toggling the terminal window.
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Available in many popular distro repositories
Guake is available in a lot of repositories for the most popular distros. This makes it very easy to obtain and install on almost any system.
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Shortcut key F12 can be used to toggle
The global shortcut key, F12, can be used to easily toggle the terminal window.
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Tabs support
Guake supports tabs, while working with them is very easy.
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Can choose byobu as shell
You can choose byobu as shell, by adding a line to /etc/shells : " /usr/bin/byobu" and get guake with byobu ... sweet!
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Eterm
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Requires very little memory
Eterm requires only around 9 MB of RAM per terminal instance.
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Focuses too much on looking pretty
Eterm focuses a lot on being customizable and looking good, instead of focusing on features or power.
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Transparency support
Eterm has pseudo-transparency support. This allows the user to make windows look less imposing (particularly in Terminal emulators which can comprise large chunks of text).
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KiTTY
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Includes additional features over PuTTy
Sessions filter Shortcuts for pre-defined command The session launcher Automatic logon script URL hyperlinks Running a locally saved script on a remote session Send to tray Transparency Quick start of a duplicate session SSH Handler: Internet Explorer integration pscp.exe and WinSCP integration New command-line options
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No centralized configuration
Each session holds its own configuration of all features. This means that if one wants to change a configuration common to all sessions (say, the terminal font), it has to be changed in each stored session separately. A better solution would be to have a default configuration and store only the changed elements for each session (both configurations would be merged, with e priority on the specific one).
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Source Code Available
Source code is available so you could modify or review changes.
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No tabbed sessions
No built-in support for tabbed sessions. Requires an add-on.
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Startup sessions
Support start-up sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories, and programs to run on startup.
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No mouse support in alternative screens
Like vim, less, etc.
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Can store login credentials
Ability to store passwords/passphrases locally.
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Clickable URLs
URLs are parsed and can be clicked.
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Auto login script
Automatic processing of commands after conncetion was made.
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True Color support
Supports True Color, so software like Vim can display a really nice pallet.
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Portable version available
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Background image
Ability to overlay the terminal background with an image.
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Unicode
Uses Unicode for the best character compatibility.
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ROXTerm
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Drag and drop
ROXTerm supports dragging and dropping items into the Terminal window.
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Uncertain future
The original developer, Tony Houghton, declared the death of Roxterm on 2016-05 at https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/?limit=25#3fc9. In 2018, work began to resume on Github rather than Sourceforge (https://github.com/realh/roxterm/issues/1) but the future maintenance is uncertain.
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Advanced D-Bus usage
In ROXTerm, users can use D-Bus to configure terminals from other applications, allowing for communication between multiple computer programs.
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Not for regular users
ROXTerm is made for power users who spend most of their time on the terminal. For a regular user using ROXTerm it would be an overkill.
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Includes a configuration manager
ROXTerm includes a configuration manager which can easily be run by selecting Configure... in the terminal's menu, or by simply running roxterm-config. You can then easily swap configuration files with other users, manage profiles, and customize things like color schemes or keyboard shortcuts.
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Supports GTK3
ROXTerm uses the latest GTK widget set which is great a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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Gnome Terminal
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Good integration with other GNOME-Shell apps
Gnome Terminal integrates well into Gnome Desktop, as well as the rest of the core Gnome Shell apps.
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No background transparency
While this used to be a good option, background transparency has been removed.
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Exceptionally fast
The Gnome Terminal is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.
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Gnome library dependencies
While not an issue if using Gnome, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app making for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean this may be an issue.
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Support for tabs
Gnome Terminal allows for the use of tabs by right clicking in the terminal window and selecting open new tab or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+t by default.
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Font rendering doesn't look good
it seems that everything is fatter per default.
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Supports scrolling
You can scroll up and down in Gnome terminal. And if you wish to do so, you can also hide the scrollbar.
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Heavyweight
To achieve a large amount of speed, Gnome Terminal has to use a relatively large amount of memory to run. It may eat up to 15-30 MB per instance, depending on the task it's doing.
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Solarized colors
Gnome Terminal comes with a solarized colorscheme installed and ready to use.
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No tab names
Since Gnome 3, the feature for manual renaming of tabs was reaped off.
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Content re-flow when window is resized
When using the GNOME Terminal, if you have long lines of text inside it and then you change the window, the text will also automatically update according to the new window size.
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Doesn't support font ligature still in 2019
gnome-terminal uses vte for its terminal emulator, and vte simply doesn't support font ligature (yes, it's 2019). This is what its maintainer thinks about it. He really thinks supporting font ligature breaks terminal's grid, like he doesn't understand a font that's monospace is a monospace no matter if it has ligature or not.
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Notifications upon command completion
This isn't in the current release but in development versions you get notifications when commands are complete. This is great for long-running commands, relieving you from continuously checking to see if your command is done.
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Incomplete vt handling due to using libvte
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Configurable keybindings
Configurable key bindings can be used for copy-paste, sending SIGINT, switching tabs, and so on.
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Restrictive license
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Transparency
We can change the alpha canal and see through the terminal.
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Open Source
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Drop-down support
Drop-down functionality can be added to Gnome Terminal via an extension.
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Clever memory management
Multiple terminals are managed from one gnome-terminal instance that takes up about 45 MB. Adding on other instances (with 10k lines of used buffer), each terminal requires about 16 MB of memory.
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Getting better and better over time
Tilix used to surpass gnome-terminal but right now they are both the best options unless you have special needs.
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License:
GPLv3+
Source repository:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal
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Low memory usage
st is built to serve as a lightweight terminal emulator. It's very light and doesn't require many resources to run, making it able to run well on older and low-end machines.
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Configuration requires recompiling
Though recompilation takes seconds, knowledge of C header files is required for customization (though it's pretty easy to do for someone who knows how to edit config files).
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Extremely simple architecture
st consists of a single C file that takes seconds to recompile. This also makes it very easy to understand and customize.
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Text is cut off when resizing windows
In the vanilla build, when reducing windows, lines do not wrap, they are cut off. When the window is made large again, some of the text is missing.
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24-bit "True Color" support
st supports color escape sequences for a full 16 million 24-bit color spectrum, instead of the typical 256 colors.
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Crashes when some characters or colored fonts are displayed
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Support for fontconfig
There is full XFT (X Free Type interface library) and fallback font support through fontconfig in st. If your selected font is missing a certain glyph or symbol, but one of your other installed fonts has it, it will be shown.
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No scrollback by default
The best way to perform scrollback is to use a multiplexer (such as tmux, screen, or dvtm) if you want scrollback and reverse-search support.
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Copyfree licensing
Copyfree licensing implies that the user has the freedom to copy, use, modify, and distribute what he/she possesses.
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New features means installing patches
Just to get copy/paste support and scrolling, you have to install patches. And it's not that intuitive for a beginner.
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Image previews
Handles image previews (e.g. in ranger) way better than other terminal emulators.
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Internal border/margins
Doesn't support internal margins.
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Patches are great
The patches on the site are great. Scroll back, hide the mouse, etc.
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Source code edits (aka configs) need to be redone after updating
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Minimalist
Hackable and lightweight.
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Imperfect fontconfig support for CJK characters
It [st] doesn't seem to use CJK fonts provided by fontconfig while other programs use such fonts.
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Blazing fast
it is extremely responsive and fast, even on older computers.
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Clean
The terminal doesn't have any bloated features nobody uses. It is very minimal and extendable.
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Extensible Kitten framework
Supports plugins to add features one at a time for those who need them. Examples include Unicode input and side-by-side diffs.
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Window tiling
Very elegant keyboard shortcuts for creating and navigating between tiled terminals within each tab with no appreciable lag.
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Tabs for multiple instances
Operate several terminals from one window using the tabs feature, allowing you to make simultaneous connections to different remote hosts.
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Scrollback buffer viewer
Allows for viewing the scrollback buffer in an external pager of your choice ('less' by default, with support for 'more' and 'most'), a huge benefit for turning actions taken in a live terminal session into a script for efficiency or dissemination or collaborating on workflows.
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Controlled and configured from the shell prompt within the program itself
No graphical menus to clutter the screen saves system resources and time once you learn that all those options are still available from the command line within the app.
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The official repository is inactive
The official repository for Wterm seems to be inactive, with open bug reports as far back as 2006.
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Fast
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
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Memory efficient
Each instance requires only about 6.3 MB of RAM, even with 10.000 lines of buffer.
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