What’s your favorite terminal emulator on Linux? Did I miss listing your favorite? Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments down below. But, if you’re looking for quick access (Quake Mode) or Tiling feature or multiple windows in a terminal, feel free to try out the options mentioned above. However, if you’re aiming for a stable and productive experience, you need to test the terminal emulators before you can rely on them.įor most of the users, the default terminal emulators should be good enough. You can try anything you like if you’re looking for a different user experience.
There are several terminal emulators available out there. Hence, I’ve avoided linking it here, you’re free to explore more about it by yourself if you’re curious. Unfortunately, the official website is being flagged by Firefox due to SSL certificates being messed up for it and the changelog seems to be last updated in 2016. has driven most real video terminals into retirement, replaced by a terminal-emulator program running on the usurping PC, Mac, PDA, or Unix workstation. It allows you to have multiple windows on different displays along with a bunch of other features. Urxvt is a fork of rxvt terminal emulator with unicode support that you might want to know. You can find other packages (including NetBSD) from its official website. For Ubuntu-based distros, you can install it by the following command: sudo apt install xterm
You can easily find it in your system repositories.
