TotalTerminal Alternatives

TotalTerminal is described as 'A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TotalTerminal for Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and mintty. The best TotalTerminal alternative is iTerm2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TotalTerminal are Kitty terminal, Guake terminal, Yakuake and Cool Retro Term.

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TotalTerminal

Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator

A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor...

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iTerm2
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
72 iTerm2 alternatives
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
- - iTerm2 is the most popular Mac alternative to TotalTerminal.
- - iTerm2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TotalTerminal.
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iTerm2 Features
1. Support for scriptingiTerm2 supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Customizable
Supports Python
SSH
Split windows
Integrated Search
Clean design
Quake-style
Multiple languages
Notifications
Key binding
Kitty terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
71 Kitty terminal alternatives
Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...
- - Kitty terminal is the most popular Linux alternative to TotalTerminal.
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Kitty terminal Features
1. Command line interfaceKitty terminal either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. LightweightKitty terminal consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
GPU based
Split-screen view
Font Ligature Support
Tiling Layouts
Keyboard focused
Full keyboard shortcuts
Guake terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux
BSD
32 Guake terminal alternatives
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).
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Guake terminal Features
Dropdown terminal
Quake-style
Tabbed interface
Split tabs
Terminal-based
Built-in terminal emulation
Yakuake
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux
BSD
31 Yakuake alternatives
Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.
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Yakuake Features
Dropdown terminal
Make window transparent
Split tabs
KDE
Quake-style
Tabbed interface
Built-in search engine
Cool Retro Term
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
45 Cool Retro Term alternatives
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.
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WezTerm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
82 WezTerm alternatives
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
- - WezTerm is the most popular Windows alternative to TotalTerminal.
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WezTerm Features
1. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of WezTerm.
2. Support for scriptingWezTerm supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
GPU Acceleration
Hyperlinks
WSL integreation
Split tabs
Configurable
Lua scripting
Multi panel
Fig Terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
71 Fig Terminal alternatives
Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Move faster with Fig.
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Fig Terminal Features
1. Command line interfaceFig Terminal either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Works in a terminal
Terminal-based
tilda
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux
BSD
29 tilda alternatives
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
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tilda Features
1. Command line interfacetilda either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Lightweighttilda consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Dropdown terminal
Discontinued
The last version (0.9.6) was released in April 2008.
yeahconsole
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux
BSD
18 yeahconsole alternatives
YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console. This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key. (You will need xterm version 168 or higher to make this happen).
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yeahconsole Features
Dropdown terminal
Qonsole
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
19 Qonsole alternatives
"A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.
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Windows Quake Style Console
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
14 Windows Quake Style Console alternatives
Windows Quake style console wrapper (cmd wrapper), that shows at Win+~ key and allow to run inside it different programs, e.g. FAR Manager.
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Discontinued
The project is no longer supported. Last update was made on August 19th, 2013.
mintty-quake-console
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
mintty
13 mintty-quake-console alternatives
An AutoHotkey script that enables a quake-style terminal-on-a-hotkey for mintty.
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mintty-quake-console Features
Autohotkey
Quake-style