Top 5 Terminal Emulators

I love that this man can talk for nearly 30 minutes about something as fundamental as a terminal emulator.

I really appreciate you showing the install commands for each terminal. Such a simple little thing makes a world of difference to beginners.

I've just switched to Tilix, and I'm loving it much more than Terminator. It just fits the way I do things more naturally. Settings and menus are easier to find, offer more options, including title bar names, to keep track of what system I'm working on, for example. Thanks Jay!

Hey jay, awesome tips regarding terminal emulator. I am in love with tilix honestly. Built in tmux. So work ready out of the box. The only problem i faced was detecting which portion of the split pane is active. To solve the issue i applied dimming on inactive slight a bit. So when moving with alt, unfocused pane dimmed and active one remain with default brightness, that gives my eyes a nice visual indication where i am. 👍

I'm still using good old xterm, and it really works great. It can take a bit of customization to get things right. I tend to prefer to have lots of terminal windows instead of multiplexing within a single one, but if I feel like multiplexing, I can run tmux inside the terminal. Now what would be a killer feature for a terminal emulator would be to have it be tmux-aware, so it would make tmux sessions managed by the terminal emulator, complete with mouse clicks to switch panes, click and drag to resize, drop-down window selection, etc. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to do that, but anyone developing a terminal program should consider that.

Thank you for this video Jay Tilix is now my default terminal emulator, i'm running Solus 4.3 Budgie on this small laptop and it was easy to easy to remove gnome-terminal and switch to tilix which I appreciate, it offers a lot of options and that cool ... also removing it broke no dependency so I should be fine and have no issue for a long time Thanks !

Hey Jay, thanks for another awesome video. I don't know if you've seen / heard about MeshCentral. I recently came across it and it's the self-hosted TeamViewer / AnyDesk FOSS alternative I've been looking for for years. Might make for an interesting video.

A very cool video out here, thank you! The thing I don't like about Kitty is the toggling of split windows. Of all the selection implementations I personally hate toggling the most as it's low efficient and counterintuitive, and sometimes if you misclick you need to click a few more times to make it up.

Excellent video. Subscribed. 👍

Thanks man, tilix is what i was looking for. It is best of terminal for me i worked on mac in iterm2 a half of year (now back on linux and continue to use mac) and this provides similar expirience (not the same but closer than other)

Bro speaks so calmly, that makes understanding PERFECT

Hey Bro, i like your intro, pretty clean!

Nice, I prefer kitty over Alacritty since it aims to replace tmux and offered more control over font spacing.

thanks, you've really improved my life!

Good job man, just what I needed. Terminator was the one I chose. 😁

Nice choices. I removed default gnome terminal with gnome-terminal-fedora. I had Terminator installed, but I rarely need it.

My personal favorites are in this order. Konsole, Cool-retro-term, Kitty, Gnome terminal. Those are the only few I've really used

Another feature of rxvt-unicode I like is the daemon (urxvtd and urxvtc), save even more system resources.

Tilix was included as the default emulator in Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 that I just installed on my laptop.

You missed a big Terminator feature! The ability to broadcast commands across multiple terminal windows.