Top 5 terminal emulators for Linux

A terminal emulator is a computer program. Essentially they are graphical applications that give you shell access to your machine. The terminal emulator allows an end user to access console as well as its applications such as text user interface and command line interface. To get to the shell from your system's graphical interface, you need a terminal emulator.

Are you a system administrator, Linux power user, or someone who just spends a lot of time at the command line? You may find the huge number of terminal emulators to choose from this open source world. Chances are your choice of terminal emulator says something about you. To give a better understanding of the quality of software that is available, we have gathered top 5 terminal emulators for Linux.


1. Terminator

Terminator Screenshots
Terminator Screenshot

Terminator is an advanced and powerful terminal emulator. That is designed to make arranging terminals within a single window easier, with features including a number of key bindings, saving of layouts and the ability to type to multiple terminals at the same time. This emulator is fully customizable. It is possible to split the terminal window into several areas and you can re-size them as needed. the scrollback lines can be set to a preferred value, or set to infinite scrollback. Terminator has tabs, drag and drops re-ordering of terminals, and lots of keyboard shortcuts to help the user. It.s very user-friendly and fun to use.

Go to Terminator Homepage.


2. Gnome Terminal

Gnome-terminal Screenshots
Gnome-terminal Screenshot

Gnome Terminal emulator for Linux. It's built-in for GNOME desktop environment. Gnome Terminal is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds to display files up to 600MB. It allows users to run commands using a real Linux shell while remaining on the GNOME environment Gnome Terminal supports multiple profiles, so can safely play around with settings without losing current configuration, or set different profiles for users can able to create multiple profiles for his/her account and can customize configuration options such as fonts, colors, background image, behavior etc, it allows scroll up and down, And you can also hide the scrollbar.

Go to Gnome Terminal Hompage.


3. Guake

Guake Screenshots
Guake Screenshot

Guake is a python based drop-down terminal emulator for Linux. It's created for GNOME Desktop Environment. Guake transparency to the width and height of the window appearance is customizable. You can also choose which key to use for toggling the terminal window. It also comes with a selection of neat color schemes, giving you a few stylish options for other desktops. Its design was determined from FPS games such as Quake and one of its main targets is be easy to reach.

Go to Guake Hompage.


4. Yakuake

Yakuake Terminal Screenshot
Yakuake Screenshot

Yakuake is another drop-down terminal emulator for Linux. It's basically a KDE application. Its design was inspired from fps consoles games such as Quake. If you like Quake-style, Thes terminal for you. Yakuake terminal emulator very much similar to Guake terminal emulator in functionality. It's can be easily installed on KDE desktop if try to install Yakuake in GNOME desktop, it prompt to install a large number of dependency packages.

Go to Yakuake Hompage.


5. Xfce4 terminal

Xfce4 Screenshots
Xfce4 Screenshot

Xfce4 is a lightweight modern and easy to use terminal emulator for Linux. It's can configure the Xfce-terminal to as a drop-down terminal, which makes for greater ease of use. It allows using multiple tabs with terminals within a single window, the possibility of a pseudo-transparent terminal background, and a compact mode help to save space on the desktop. Xfce4 terminal takes advantage of Xfce composition effects.

Go to Xface Hompage.

If you have any other Linux terminal emulator you prefer, which is not included in this top list, But of course, tell me through the comment.


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