GNOME Terminal Alternatives

GNOME Terminal is described as 'Terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GNOME Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best GNOME Terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME Terminal are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and PowerShell.

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  1. Guake terminal icon
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    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).

    41 Guake terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. QTerminal icon
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    QT-based multitab terminal emulator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
  3. xterm icon
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    The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

    62 xterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Tilix icon
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    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    74 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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  5. Xfce4-Terminal icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  6. iTerm icon
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    iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete...

    70 iTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. rxvt-unicode icon
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    Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. Extraterm icon
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    Extraterm is more than just a traditional terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications, allowing you to capture and reuse previous command output across your terminal sessions, preview images and rich media directly, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
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    Comments about Extraterm as an Alternative to GNOME Terminal
    PavelR
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    Version 0.69 crashes on Windows 10 almost every time. When it didn't crash, mouse support for console applications wasn't working.

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    • Extraterm is Free and Open SourceGNOME Terminal is also Free and Open Source
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