A terminal emulator is one that emulates a video terminal within a separate display architecture.
1. Guake: This emulator is based on the Yakuake Terminal emulator from the KDE desktop environment. Interestingly, this terminal’s design is inspired by first person shooter computer games like Quake. Fedora, Debian, ArchLinux and Ubuntu have this as part of their default repositories.
2. Terminator: This is a cross platform terminal emulator, which has some very useful features. It is also available in the default repositories of well known Linux distributions like Ubuntu and others. It was released under GPL.
3. Yakuake: As mentioned before, this terminal emulator is what inspired the Guake emulator. It is based on the KDE Konsole technology and comes as an app for the KDE environment. It does face some conflicts with a GNOME desktop, but runs perfectly smoothly on KDE.
4. ROXTerm: This terminal provides a wide range of features for Linux power users. Interestingly, it wasn’t originally meant to be so. Rather, it was created to be a lightweight alternative for the GNOME terminal.
5. Eterm: This is a colour terminal emulator, which is perhaps the lightest one available. It is meant to be a replacement for the xterm emulator and is quite fast.
6. Rxvt: This is another replacement terminal for xterm. While it is not as light as Eterm, it still doesn’t take up much of the system’s resources.
7. Aterm: This Linux terminal emulator is based on the rxvt emulator. This terminal comes with attractive visual effects an has perform the basic functionalities that we see in terminals.
8. Wterm: This terminal emulator is also based on the Rxvt emulator. It has added features like background images, transparency and reverse transparency. It can be customised to a large extent.
9. TermKit: This is a graphic oriented terminal emulator, which has been created using WebKit.
Default terminals aren't always up to the mark. You can dislike anything from the features to the look and feel of a terminal. Many users often want to add a little more zing to the terminal that they are working on. For this purpose, terminal emulators come in handy. Here are nine such emulators that add a lot more to the command line. |  |
1. Guake: This emulator is based on the Yakuake Terminal emulator from the KDE desktop environment. Interestingly, this terminal’s design is inspired by first person shooter computer games like Quake. Fedora, Debian, ArchLinux and Ubuntu have this as part of their default repositories.
2. Terminator: This is a cross platform terminal emulator, which has some very useful features. It is also available in the default repositories of well known Linux distributions like Ubuntu and others. It was released under GPL.
3. Yakuake: As mentioned before, this terminal emulator is what inspired the Guake emulator. It is based on the KDE Konsole technology and comes as an app for the KDE environment. It does face some conflicts with a GNOME desktop, but runs perfectly smoothly on KDE.
4. ROXTerm: This terminal provides a wide range of features for Linux power users. Interestingly, it wasn’t originally meant to be so. Rather, it was created to be a lightweight alternative for the GNOME terminal.
5. Eterm: This is a colour terminal emulator, which is perhaps the lightest one available. It is meant to be a replacement for the xterm emulator and is quite fast.
6. Rxvt: This is another replacement terminal for xterm. While it is not as light as Eterm, it still doesn’t take up much of the system’s resources.
7. Aterm: This Linux terminal emulator is based on the rxvt emulator. This terminal comes with attractive visual effects an has perform the basic functionalities that we see in terminals.
8. Wterm: This terminal emulator is also based on the Rxvt emulator. It has added features like background images, transparency and reverse transparency. It can be customised to a large extent.
9. TermKit: This is a graphic oriented terminal emulator, which has been created using WebKit.
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