Terminals

Terminals on Linux

Gnome Terminal

The default terminal on Ubuntu.

Terminator

Terminator supports multiple GNOME Terminals in one window.

Xterm

Xterm is the legacy terminal emulator under X. See Xterm.

Alacritty

Alacritty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal, touted to be the fastest terminal ever.

• See Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
• Available on GitHub

Troubleshoot

• Slower than Gnome Terminal / Terminator on Ubuntu with Intel MESA driver (i915). On Vim, jitter in the scrolling.

See Issue #225.

st (simple terminal)

st, aka simple terminal from suckless.org, is a simple terminal implementation for X, that sucks less.

On Ubuntu, install either from package

sudo apt install stterm

Or download the git repository and compile from source.

git clone git://git.suckless.org/st
cd st
make clean install

To configure st, edit config.h and build again. Check also the excellent ArchLinux page on st.

Terminal features

Cursor type

• Block vs Caret
• Blinking vs steady