Terminator vs Konsole

It is possible to split the terminal window into several areas and you can re-size them as needed. Multiple windows and tabs are also supported.

You can change the size, color, and give different shapes to the terminal. You can also save multiple layouts and profiles via the GUI preferences editor.

You can type at the same time on any number of arbitrarily grouped terminals. (Or all at once, or only the focussed, all switchable with a shortcut or menu item).

Terminator functionality can be extended via plugins. Examples of this include:

• Custom commands
• URL handlers (on top of common ones) for apt, launchpad, maven
• Logging output to file

Terminator allows the user to save, configure, and launch arrangements of windows, tabs, and terminals.

The scrollback lines can be set to a preferred value, or set to infinite scrollback.

If you want to use Terminator as a drop-down terminal, you can do so by editing the config file and set whichever key you want to use as a trigger.

Many actions in Terminator can be triggered with configurable shortcuts.

If you have a compositor, you can use true transparency. You can also have a fake transparency where an image can be used as a fake desktop. Both of these can be tinted with the background color too.

There is a standard notification pop-up that appears if a terminal is silent for a configurable period, or if it has new activity.

When not constrained by it's own general principles and unique features, Terminator tries to follow the GNOME-Terminal way of doing things.

You can zoom (font size increases) or maximize (font size does not increase) a single terminal to fill the whole window with a shortcut. All the other terminals remain open, they are just hidden from sight, and everything is restored by repeating the shortcut.

Every single aspect of Terminator is exhaustively documented, and can be quickly opened with the common shortcut F1 (which is configurable, of course).

Terminator has tabs, drag and drop re-ordering of terminals, and lots of keyboard shortcuts to help the user. It also has an extensive preferences window, or if you have to, a plain text config file.

Unless this option is disabled (it's enabled by default), Terminator will only run the first instance as a process. And when it's run again, the DBus server will simply open a new window using the old process. This helps a lot with reducing resource usage.

Terminator has a really helpful functionality that lets the user start/stop a logger in order to save the text written in the shell into a file. In order to do this, the user needs to turn on the logging plugin in the plugin settings, and then a "start logger" menu item will appear in a right click menu when using the terminal. The user is also able to pick the path they would like the logs saved to when turning the plugin on.

If you have long lines of text inside a terminal and then you change the size of the terminal, the text will also automatically update according to the new size.

Some activities can be scripted using a tool called remotinator which uses the DBus interface to command the application to perform a limited set of tasks.

Konsole can bookmark ssh and telnet sessions, directories, and it can open tabs in a folder for easy access.

Konsole supports split-view which splits the window into two (or more) konsole instances. This is very useful for people who work a lot on the terminal and don't want to spend time navigating between different windows or tabs.

Konsole supports true color and smooth font. This made konsole more fanstatic than other terminal emulators.

Konsole can be embedded into desktop so it's always easily accessible, but not in the way of other windows.

By going to file > save output, you can send all screen output to a text file.

Konsole can be accessed by pressing F4 in Dolphin, which is convenient for when the user needs to open the terminal in a particular spot of the file structure.

Most terminals in Linux don't support font ligature, while many modern fonts such as PragmataPro or Fira Code already have decent coverage of font ligature. Support for font ligature makes user experience and font management much easier (i.e. you don't need to keep two copies of the same font just to use in the console)

Users can associate each bookmark or SSH session with a custom icon, thus giving a visual hint to quickly identify a tab when a lot of tabs are open.

In particular solarized.

Konsole can monitor activities and notify the user through system notifications when a certain activity happens. This is a very customizable feature too: you can write scripts that can use this feature and notify you for whatever you want.

Konsole 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.

Profiles containing different settings can be created, saved, and loaded. Color schemes, window transparency, scroll bar, key bindings, start-up commands, window border, and menu bar can all be customized according to the user's needs.

Good menu to customize.