Collection Of Terminal Emulators For Linux In 2018

Insight: Terminal Emulators For Linux

There are plenty of terminal emulator available for Linux based operating system. In this post, we are providing the list of terminal emulators for Linux in 2018.

1) Tilda Emulator

Tilda is a terminal emulator which can be pulled up and down from the top of the screen with a special hotkey. Tilda currently works only on Xorg-based desktops

Install Tilda Terminal Emulator On Ubuntu Linux

simply run the following commands in Terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tilda

2) Cool-retro-term

One of the coolest terminal emulator available for linux is Cool-retro-term. It mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. Installation instruction can be found in this link.

Download Cool Terminal

3) Guake Terminal

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment.

Guake supports Multimonitor setup. More than 130 predefined palettes are available in this terminal emulator.

Download And Installation Instruction

4) st – simple terminal

It is a very lightweight terminal emulator which tends to be very simple emulator.

Download st

5) Konsole

Konsole is the default terminal emulator for KDE based system. It features are almost similar to the Gnome emulator. It also bookmarking function for directories and SSH.

Download Konsole

6) Xfce Terminal

Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

Download Xfce Terminal

7) Tilix Terminal Emulator

Install Tilix On Ubuntu

You need to download the latest version of this emulator from Github and run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo unzip tilix.zip -d /
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Meanwhile, there is also an alternative option to install Tilix terminal emulator using PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/terminix
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tilix

Collection Of Terminal Emulators For Linux In 2018