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.

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.
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.

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...


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




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.

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



Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.






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




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).


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



Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.



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.

