GNOME Terminal Alternatives

Terminator

Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the main focus is arranging terminals in grids (tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports).

Features:

• Configurable
• Function Key Shortcuts
• Support for Multiple Monitors
• Plugins
• Split-screen view
• Split windows
• Terminal emulator
• Support for Themes
• Tiling Layouts

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language from Microsoft. Windows PowerShell integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework and provides an environment for execution of cmdlets, which are specialized .NET classes implementing a particular operation, scripts, which are composition of cmdlets along with imperative logic, executables, which are standalone applications, or by instantiating regular .NET classes.

Features:

• Optimized for Windows
• PowerShell Scripting
• Scripting

Guake terminal

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

Features:

• Dropdown terminal
• Quake-style
• You can edit preferences without restart
• Built-in Terminal
• Split tabs
• Tabbed interface
• Terminal-based
• Terminal emulator

Hyper

Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian. For developers, extensions are universal Node.js modules loaded by both Electron and the renderer process.

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Split-screen view
• Tiling Panes
• Clean design
• Command line interface
• Customizable
• Divisible
• Electron based
• Multiple Font Colors
• Plugin API
• Skinnable
• Terminal emulator
• Support for Themes
• Uses Packages

Cool Retro Term

Cool Retro Term (CRT) is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight. Included are an array of packaged profiles (themes) that you can fully customize to get the exact, retro look you'd like. This terminal emulator works under Linux and OSX and requires Qt 5.2 or higher.

Alacritty

Alacritty is the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough. Even so, Linux does have some decent alternatives. For example, urxvt and st give good experiences. The major downside with those options is difficulty of configuration and inability to run on non-X11 platforms.

Features:

• GPU Support
• Lightweight
• No input delay
• Terminal emulator