Terminal emulators: an extensive list

Do you use the terminal emulator that comes by default with your operating system? There are many terminal emulators available and you may discover what will be your next terminal application.

Desktop defaults
Other
- Alacritty
- Blackbox
- Kitty
- Terminator
- Tilix
- Cool Retro Term
- xterm
- Hyper

Desktop defaults

Konsole (KDE)

Features:

Tabs
Multiple profiles
Split view
Silence and Activity monitoring
Bookmark support
Searching
Saving output

Terminal (GNOME)

Basic terminal with tabs support. GNOME is working on a new terminal called Console, but, at the moment of this writing, is still in beta.

Terminal (XFCE)

A lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many features:

Tabs
Unlimited scrolling
Full colors
Transparent backgrounds

MATE Terminal

It’s a fork of GNOME terminal, with profile, tabs support.

Other

Alacritty

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. Considered a beta application at this moment.

Blackbox

Features:

Theming
Custom fonts
Tabs
Headerbarless mode
Available on Flatpak

Kitty

The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.

Terminator

Multiple GNOME terminals in one window. You can put terminals into groups, which allows you to control multiple terminals simultaneously.

Tilix

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines:

Custom links
Drag and drop
Image support
Multiple panes
Notifications
Persistent layouts

Cool Retro Term

cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens.

xterm

Very basic (and lightweight) X terminal emulator.

Hyper is an Electron-based terminal built on open web standards (HTML-CSS-JS). DEB, RPM and AppImage installers are available (you can also install it via AUR on Arch Linux). It has options to split the window, install plugins or change colors and fonts (by editing a configuration file).