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Yakuake Alternatives
Yakuake is described as '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' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Yakuake for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Yakuake alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yakuake are Termux, Windows Terminal, ConEmu and MobaXterm.
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70 Wave Terminal alternativesWave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.
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104 WezTerm alternativesA GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
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60 Cool Retro Term alternativesTerminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.
74 foot alternativesFast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.
console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.
ConsoleZ vs Yakuake Comments
- ConsoleZ is Free and Open Source
32 Console alternativesConsole is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
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Console vs Yakuake Comments
This is not "drop-down" terminal.
- Console is Free and Open Source
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.
33 Black Box alternativesBlack Box is a native terminal emulator that offers superb theming options.
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?
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Split screen does not work same. It is more like Konsole clone than Yakuake.