qterminal VS alacritty

Compare qterminal vs alacritty and see what are their differences.

qterminal

A lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator (by qterminal)

alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty] (by jwilm)
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qterminal alacritty
4 2
576 30,807
2.1% -
7.2 9.0
6 days ago about 3 years ago
C++ Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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qterminal

Posts with mentions or reviews of qterminal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-02.
  • How to run similar linux command simultaneously in multiple QTerminal tab/shell ?
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 2 Jul 2022
    I know this can be done easily in terminator. But terminator installation is not an option in this case. I'm on different system where the only terminal available is QTerminal.
  • Pi-hole image for most rooted Android devices.
    3 projects | /r/pihole | 24 Sep 2021
    Following up on the weird gear running Pi-hole posts; I refined things a bit further and have created a universal 'Pi-hole for Android' disk image. It should run on ANY ARMv7 or newer Android box ever made, from Kernel 3.0 (2010-ish) to current. When the image is launched, It performs gateway detection and other checks to populate setupVars.conf. Also used for unattended installation as setup dies in interactive mode. You gain access via web admin, SSH, or qterminal via xRDP. RDC Client in the App/Play Store, Windows MSTSC.EXE, or Remmina/xfreerdp all work well. Ugly hacks are in the "init" system at /etc/rc.local for your pleasure/disgust. 'sysprep' cleans-up the image and triggers key regeneration for SSH and xRDP at next boot. Ubuntu was my 1st attempt for the base image, but Centos 7 is the only current distro that can live with kernel 3.0 and has recent libraries backported to let Pi-hole work.
  • C++ Qt5 Terminal Emulators?
    1 project | /r/QtFramework | 9 Sep 2021
    QTerminal https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal
  • What terminal emulator do you use?
    13 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Apr 2021
    QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal

alacritty

Posts with mentions or reviews of alacritty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-09.
  • tabby - a terminal for the modern age
    9 projects | /r/commandline | 9 Dec 2021
    There are many terminal emulators, for throughput, predictable behavior with modern features, quake style, theming, tabs, and much more. Most of the features you need are supported by urxvt, and if it's not, there's sure to be another non-electron terminal emulator that has exactly what you need.
  • What terminal emulator do you use?
    13 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Apr 2021
    Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

What are some alternatives?

When comparing qterminal and alacritty you can also consider the following projects:

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

zutty - X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders

tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

hyper - A terminal built on web technologies [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/hyper]

cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

terminal - :rocket: Terminal

tmux - tmux source code

oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer