Top Terminal Emulator in Linux – Part 1

Top Terminal Emulator in Linux

Terminator

Terminator is an open-source terminal emulator programmed in Java. Terminator will run on any modern POSIX system running Java 6 or later. Terminator is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. The application program helps to use multiple spilt and resized terminals, all at once on a single screen similar to tmux terminal multiplexer.

Features

• Drag & Drop - Text and URLs, and even files from Finder/Nautilus/Windows Explorer can be dropped on Terminator to be inserted as text, with automatic quoting of file names containing shell meta-characters.
• Find - Terminator provides you with a find function so users can search for text and regular expressions within their terminal (including the scroll back), highlighting them all, in the style of less, and offering quick movement to the next or previous match.
• Horizontal Scrolling - Most terminal emulators wrap text when it intrudes upon the right margin. Terminator instead provides a horizontal scroll bar when necessary.
• Multiple Tabs - Like tabbed browsing, only with terminals, tabbed terminals

Installation of Terminator

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install terminator
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, : versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink | 4.0 kB 00:00
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
* epel: epel.mirror.net.in
* extras: ftp.iitm.ac.in -->  Package terminator.noarch 0:0.95-2.el6 will be installed . . .
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Installed:
terminator.noarch 0:0.95-2.el6
Complete!

Now Run the terminator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# terminator

Guake

Guake is a drop-down terminal for gtk based desktop environments like gnome, XFCE etc. Guake is mostly written in Python and has a little piece in C.

Features

• Lightweight
• Simple and Elegant
• Smooth integration of terminal into GU
• Multi tab
• Plenty of color palettes

Installation of guake emulator

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install guake
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, verify,: versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
* epel: epel.mirror.net.in
* extras: ftp.iitm.ac.in
-->  Package guake.x86_64 0:0.4.4-9.el6 will be installed . .
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Installed:
guake.x86_64 0:0.4.4-9.el6
Complete!

Run the guake emulator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# guake

yakuake

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. It’ s design was inspired from fps console games such as Quake.

Features

• Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen
• Tabbed interface Configurable dimensions and animation speed
• Skinnable Sophisticated D-Bus interface

Installation of yakuake emulator

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install yakuake
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, verify,: versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
-->  Package yakuake.x86_64 0:2.9.8-1.el6 will be installed
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Installed:
yakuake.x86_64 0:2.9.8-1.el6
Complete!

Run the yakuake emulator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yakuake

Roxterm

ROXterm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library. It was originally designed to have a smaller footprint and quicker start-up time by not using the Gnome libraries and by using a separate applet to provide the configuration GUI. It can be used as a ROX application, as the name implies, or in any other X environment.

Installation of Roxterm emulator

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install roxterm
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, verify,: versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
-->  Package roxterm.x86_64 0:1.20.5-1.el6 will be installed
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Installed:
roxterm.x86_64 0:1.20.5-1.el6
Complete!

Run the roxterm emulator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# roxterm

Rxvt

Rxvt (eXtended Virtual Terminal) is a color terminal emulator application for Linux. It is intended to be a slimmed-down alternate for xterm, omitting some of its little-used features, like Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configuration

Installation of rxvt terminal

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install rxvt
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, verify,: versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
-->  Package rxvt.x86_64 0:2.7.10-17.el6 will be installed . . .
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Installed:
rxvt.x86_64 0:2.7.10-17.el6
Complete!

Run the rxvt emulator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# rxvt

xterm

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can' t use the window system directly.

Installation of xterm emulator

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install xterm
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, verify,: versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
-->  Package xterm.x86_64 0:253-1.el6 will be installed . . .
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Installed: xterm.x86_64 0:253-1.el6
Complete!

Run the xterm emulator by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# xterm