What terminal emulator do you use?

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  • zutty

    Discontinued X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders

  • zutty — A high-end terminal for low-end systems https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

  • tmux

    tmux source code

  • Like others I can share my personal experience: I've started with xterm then moved to urxvt, and now I'm using st (from the suckless team who has other great programs like dwm or dmenu for example). Note that whatever terminal you're using, I would recommend trying tmux (a terminal multiplexer) if you haven't done it yet.

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  • alacritty

    Discontinued A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty] (by jwilm)

  • Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

  • cool-retro-term

    A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

  • Cool Retro Term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

  • cutecom

  • CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom

  • Eterm

    Eterm terminal emulator

  • Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop https://github.com/mej/Eterm

  • hyper

    Discontinued A terminal built on web technologies [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/hyper] (by zeit)

  • Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform https://github.com/zeit/hyper

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  • kitty

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

  • kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

  • terminal

    :rocket: Terminal (by lirios)

  • Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri https://github.com/lirios/terminal

  • qterminal

    A lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator

  • QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal

  • shellinabox

    Official-ish Fork of Shell In A Box

  • shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox

  • wayst

    A simple terminal emulator

  • wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies https://github.com/91861/wayst

  • tilix

    A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

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