TotalTerminal Alternatives for Linux

TotalTerminal is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to TotalTerminal and 15 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to TotalTerminal are Kitty terminal, Tess, Yakuake and WezTerm.

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  1. Ghostty icon
     73 likes

    Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.

    65 Ghostty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
     
  2. Kitty terminal icon
     61 likes

    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...

    93 Kitty terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Tess icon
     16 likes

    Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Yakuake icon
     94 likes

    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.

    50 Yakuake alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    • Flathub
     
  5. WezTerm icon
     23 likes

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    109 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ForceTerm icon
     5 likes

    Fully featured terminal based on JediTerm.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  7. Ptyxis icon
     6 likes

    Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.

    66 Ptyxis alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
     
  8. Guake terminal icon
     132 likes

    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).

    46 Guake terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Cool Retro Term icon
     40 likes

    Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. tilda icon
     39 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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