Yakuake vs Tilix

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal. This means that you can press, for example, F12, and it slides downward from the top edge of the screen. After you are done with it, you can then hit F12 again and it slides back on top.

Almost everything in Yakuake is customizable: from split view, fullscreen mode, configurable dimensions, to animation speed and keybindings.

You can easily split any tab into different windows and run several commands at the same time then monitor and change them with ease. You won't find this feature in guake or tilda!

Yakuake supports tabs, while working with several tabs is very easy. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Shift + left/right arrow.

When an activity is let working (e.g.: compiling some source or upgrading some system), and you forgot it, a nice popup and sound will alert you when the command prompt returned on that term.

You can scroll, inside the same terminal session, infinitely, so no command should be lost, even it isn't stored yet on history.

Opens at 40MB and stays below 100MB with some tabs splitted in four each. So if you need to have many terminals emulators opened in your desktop environment, is the a very light solution for all the features it includes.

Search directly in your favourite search engine just by selecting something and right clicking. It will open the browser result page.

You can move through terminals with Ctrl+Shift+Cursors or tabs with Shift+Cursor keys, so no need to touch you mouse or pad, making working with terms even faster.

Window composition and commands inside can be scripted using qdbus.
You can make desktop shortcuts to automatically create tabs, split windows and connect to ssh sessions or launch monitoring programms. Very useful.

As the entire Plasma Desktop, yakuake already has full support for Wayland.

You can save the output of a terminal directly to a text file, to work properly with it later.

You can configure yakuake to show a visual altert when you change the terminal. So even if you have many splittings and you don't use the mouse to change between them, you can easily see where you are at any moment.

In addition to tiling, Tilix supports placing separate sessions in tabs or switching from one to another through a sidebar.

The user can split terminals horizontally or vertically, according to their needs or preferences.

Tilix follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and uses the UI patterns of this desktop environment.

Tiling and ability to type into multiple terminals simultaneously is Terminator's 2 most significant features. Tilix has them as well.

Many actions in Tilix can be triggered with configurable shortcuts.

Tilix follows GNOME HIG whereas gnome-terminal doesn't. GNOME should use Tilix as their default terminal.

Unlike the standard GNOME Terminal, Tilix supports configurable background transparency.

Tilix has that new GNOME look, with a HeaderBar. It can also be disabled.

Inside a session, you can select multiple terminals, which will receive the same input simultaneously.

The new 1.30 version of Tilix supports a quake mode enabling it to work as a drop-down terminal.

As fast as gnome-terminal, if not faster.

When running commands it feels snappier.

You can copy text from the terminal as HTML for embedding in web settings.

Great support for solarized color schemes, and no setup is involved.