lxterminal VS kermit

Compare lxterminal vs kermit and see what are their differences.

kermit

A VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator 🐸 (by orhun)
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lxterminal kermit
2 1
153 123
2.0% -
5.2 3.7
about 2 months ago 8 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lxterminal

Posts with mentions or reviews of lxterminal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.
  • Ubuntu GNOME only has xterm and uxterm
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 25 May 2022
    `xterm` is the default terminal of `xorg`, which a basic emulator. Not sure what you mean by "basic" terminal, there is a list of most used terminals: linux-terminal-emulators. An example of basic and desktop independent terminal would be lxterminal. To install it, run in a terminal `sudo apt update && sudo apt install lxterminal`.
  • LXQt 1.0.0
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021
    It’s a bit more than a rebranding, being completely rebased on a different framework, and LXDE still gets some work, for example, LXTerminal has commits from September. [0]

    [0] https://github.com/lxde/lxterminal

kermit

Posts with mentions or reviews of kermit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-07.
  • RIP termite
    4 projects | /r/commandline | 7 May 2021
    Bad news. I once designed my terminal emulator project based on termite: https://github.com/orhun/kermit

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lxterminal and kermit you can also consider the following projects:

lxqt - Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, Wiki and general issues are here.

heimdallr - A terminal, We are focused on its lightness and speed! Finally, it can be a permanent terminal for you! this terminal witten in C and Gtk framework because HEIMDALLR must be a SUPER lightweight.

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

st - Luke's fork of the suckless simple terminal (st) with vim bindings and Xresource compatibility.

dash-to-panel - An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

tym - Lua-configurable terminal emulator