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#1 2014-07-23 09:28:17

[Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

I’m currently using simple terminal from suckless.org. It is the most lightweight terminal emulator I could find. I use it with a combination of evilwm, the most lightweight window manager (besides tinywm). Does anyone know of a terminal emulator that is more lightweight terminal emulator then simple terminal?

Last edited by shoober420 (2014-07-31 16:55:32)

#2 2014-07-23 09:52:03

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

What do you need it for?
Lightweight as in small code base, small footprint or .

How does evilwm stack against dwm?

#3 2014-07-23 09:58:13

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

Just a small footprint, like least memory usage and resources. I tried out dwm, and I liked it, but tiling window managers don’t work well with Steam and certain games. So, I had to go with a stacking window manager. I believe that evilwm uses just a tad bit less resources then dwm, since it includes no bar on the screen like dwm does. I also tried out ratpoison, but that didn’t play well with Steam games either, since its also tiling.

Besides that, I love evilwm. Its easily my favorite window manager. I jumped and hopped from window manager to window manager, even trying out twm lol. evilwm has the luxury of switching terminal emulators, and changing the bindings, without having to recompile the source again, like you have to do with dwm. Thats for sure a plus.

Last edited by shoober420 (2014-07-23 10:17:51)

#4 2014-07-23 11:04:09

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

In all my tests, urxvt has been substantially lower on resource use than st once a couple terminals are open (becuase I use urxvtd/c).

With one terminal window of each urxvt and st, st is only slightly lighter on resource use, but each new terminal window duplicates that resource use with st. With urxvtd/c virtually no more resource use is added for each new instance. So with two windows, urxvt is lighter than st. With three it is much lighter, four even more so .

Subjectively, urxvt has always also seemed a good bit ‘snapier’ than st. I love suckless products, but in my experience, st just isn’t really ready yet.

Last edited by Trilby (2014-07-23 11:06:28)

«UNIX is simple and coherent. » — Dennis Ritchie, «GNU’s Not UNIX» — Richard Stallman

#5 2014-07-23 11:52:27

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

I saw your post from early 2013 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1213397 and it may depend on how exactly are you launching your terminals. urxvtd uses 10-40 MB, depending on the weather, I guess.

I’m starting a thread about st in a moment, so we can discuss it there.

st is painfully slow with scrolling, but it may be because of my old hardware, dwm, fonts or something else. It certainly encourages you to learn vim’s movement commands much faster 😉

#6 2014-07-23 13:22:24

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

tiling window managers don’t work well with Steam and certain games.

What do you mean exactly? Not going fullscreen? There are shortcuts and rules for that. I’ve been using nothing but tiling WMs for quite some time _and_ I game. If you have any questions.

#7 2014-07-23 13:50:25

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

As the creator of one tiling WM, I can cofirm that working with some client programs (such as steam, wine, almost all gtk3!) can be much more of a hassle in a tiling WM than in a stacking WM. However, as I creator of a WM, I also would very much like to have any issues reported in (clear) bug reports. Most tilers are small (sometimes one-person) projects. As such the developer(s) only get to test them under a very narrow set of circumstances — we rely on other users telling us when it doesn’t work under other circumstances.

I occasionally set up my WM on other computers with very different hardware or configurations — only then do I see a plethora of devestating and embarrasing bugs and think ‘why hasn’t anyone complained about this before’. If there were complaints, there could be fixes.

«UNIX is simple and coherent. » — Dennis Ritchie, «GNU’s Not UNIX» — Richard Stallman

#8 2014-07-23 15:21:39

Re: [Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

I’m currently using simple terminal from suckless.org. It is the most lightweight terminal emulator I could find. I use it with a combination of evilwm, the most lightweight window manager (besides tinywm). Does anyone know of a terminal emulator that is more lightweight terminal emulator then simple terminal?

I know this isn’t much of an answer, but it seems simple terminal has been part of the suckless agenda for a very long time. I’m pretty sure that if there were a graphical terminal simpler than st, the folks at suckless would have either adopted it or worked to outdo it by now.

As a side note, I usually run Steam games in windowed mode in dwm with the monocle layout, and just hide the statusbar (I have the noborder patch applied). Running games fullscreen in i3 works flawlessly.

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24 Best Free Linux Terminal Emulators (Updated 2021)

A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal within some other display architecture.

The terminal window allows the user to access a console and all its applications such as command line interfaces (CLI) and text user interface software. Even with the sophistication of modern desktop environments packed with administrative tools, other utilities, and productivity software all sporting attractive graphical user interfaces, it remains the case that some tasks are still best undertaken with the command line.

Modern desktop environments come supplied with a number of terminal emulators already installed. In the case of GNOME, KDE, and XFCE (three popular desktop environments), the user is offered GNOME Terminal, Konsole, and Terminal respectively as the default terminal emulator. However, this does not necessarily mean that the pre-selected terminal emulator is best suited for your own specific requirements or your hardware.

There are a large number of terminal emulators to choose from, some offering a huge range of features, others aiming to be frugal with system resources. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 24 excellent Linux terminal emulators. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in exploiting the power of the shell. Here’s our recommendations.

Let’s explore the 24 terminal emulators at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources.

There are other terminal emulators available of course. Some of them are forks of the software featured here, adding little of real value.

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20 Useful Terminal Emulators for Linux

A Terminal emulator is a computer program that reproduces a video terminal within some other display structure. In other words the Terminal emulator has an ability to make a dumb machine appear like a client computer networked to the server. The terminal emulator allows an end user to access console as well as its applications such as text user interface and command line interface.

20 Linux Terminal Emulators

You may find huge number of terminal emulators to choose from this open source world. Some of them offers large range of features while others offers less features. To give a better understanding to the quality of software that are available, we have gathered a list of marvelous terminal emulator for Linux. Each title provides its description and feature along with screenshot of the software with relevant download link.

1. Terminator

Terminator is an advanced and powerful terminal emulator which supports multiple terminals windows. This emulator is fully customizable. You can change the size, colour, give different shapes to the terminal. Its very user friendly and fun to use.

Features of Terminator

1. Customize your profiles and colour schemes, set the size to fit your needs.
2. Use plugins to get even more functionality.
3. Several key-shortcuts are available to speed up common activities.
4. Split the terminal window into several virtual terminals and re-size them as needed.

Terminator Terminal

2. Tilda

Tilda is a stylish drop-down terminal based on GTK+. With the help of a single key press you can launch a new or hide Tilda window. However, you can add colors of your choice to change the look of the text and Terminal background.

Features of Tilda

1. Interface with Highly customization option.
2. You can set the transparency level for Tilda window.
3. Excellent built-in colour schemes.

Tilda Terminal

3. Guake

Guake is a python based drop-down terminal created for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It is invoked by pressing a single keystroke, and can make it hidden by pressing same keystroke again. Its design was determined from FPS (First Person Shooter) games such as Quake and one of its main target is be easy to reach.

Guake is very much similar to Yakuaka and Tilda, but it’s an experiment to mix the best of them into a single GTK-based program. Guake has been written in python from scratch using a little piece in C (global hotkeys stuff).

Guake Terminal

4. Yakuake

Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake) is a KDE based drop-down terminal emulator very much similar to Guake terminal emulator in functionality. It’s design was inspired from fps consoles games such as Quake.

Yakuake is basically a KDE application, which can be easily installed on KDE desktop, but if you try to install Yakuake in GNOME desktop, it will prompt you to install huge number of dependency packages.

Yakuake Features

1. Fluently turn down from the top of your screen
2. Tabbed interface
3. Configurable dimensions and animation speed
4. Customizable

Yakuake Terminal

5. ROXTerm

ROXterm is yet another lightweight terminal emulator designed to provide similar features to gnome-terminal. It was originally constructed to have lesser footprints and faster start-up time by not using the Gnome libraries and by using a independent applet to bring the configuration interface (GUI), but over the time it’s role has shifted to bringing a higher range of features for power users.

However, it is more customizable than gnome-terminal and anticipated more at “power” users who make excessive use of terminals. It is easily integrated with GNOME desktop environment and provides features like drag & drop of items into terminal.

Roxterm Terminal

6. Eterm

Eterm is a lightest color terminal emulator designed as a replacement for xterm. It is developed with a Freedom of Choice ideology, leaving as much power, flexibility, and freedom as workable in the hands of the user.

Eterm Terminal

7. Rxvt

Rxvt stands for extended virtual terminal is a color terminal emulator application for Linux intended as an xterm replacement for power users who don’t need to have a feature such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability.

Rxvt Terminal

8. Wterm

Wterm is a another light weight color terminal emulator based on rxvt project. It includes features such as background images, transparency, reverse transparency and an considerable set or runtime options are accessible resulting in a very high customizable terminal emulator.

wterm Terminal

9. LXTerminal

LXTerminal is a default VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) without any unnecessary dependency. The terminal has got some nice features such as.

LXTerminal Features

1. Multiple tabs support
2. Supports common commands like cp, cd, dir, mkdir, mvdir.
3. Feature to hide the menu bar for saving space
4. Change the color scheme.

lxterminal Terminal

10. Konsole

Konsole is yet another powerful KDE based free terminal emulator was originally created by Lars Doelle.

Konsole Features

1. Multiple Tabbed terminals.
2. Translucent backgrounds.
3. Support for Split-view mode.
4. Directory and SSH bookmarking.
5. Customizable color schemes.
6. Customizable key bindings.
7. Notification alerts about activity in a terminal.
8. Incremental search
9. Support for Dolphin file manager
10. Export of output in plain text or HTML format.

Konsole Terminal

11. TermKit

TermKit is a elegant terminal that aims to construct aspects of the GUI with the command line based application using WebKit rendering engine mostly used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium. TermKit is originally designed for Mac and Windows, but due to TermKit fork by Floby which you can now able to install it under Linux based distributions and experience the power of TermKit.

TermKit Terminal

12. st

st is a simple terminal implementation for X Window.

st terminal

13. Gnome-Terminal

GNOME terminal is a built-in terminal emulator for GNOME desktop environment developed by Havoc Pennington and others. It allow users to run commands using a real Linux shell while remaining on the on the GNOME environment. GNOME Terminal emulates the xterm terminal emulator and brings a few similar features.

The Gnome terminal supports multiple profiles, where users can able to create multiple profiles for his/her account and can customize configuration options such as fonts, colors, background image, behavior, etc. per account and define a name to each profile. It also supports mouse events, url detection, multiple tabs, etc.

Gnome Terminal

14. Final Term

Final Term is a open source stylish terminal emulator that has some exciting capabilities and handy features into one single beautiful interface. It is still under development, but provides significant features such as Semantic text menus, Smart command completion, GUI terminal controls, Omnipotent keybindings, Color support and many more. The following animated screen grab demonstrates some of their features. Please click on image to view demo.

FinalTerm Terminal

15. Terminology

Terminology is yet another new modern terminal emulator created for the Enlightenment desktop, but also can be used in different desktop environments. It has some awesome unique features, which do not have in any other terminal emulator.

Apart features, terminology offers even more things that you wouldn’t assume from a other terminal emulators, like preview thumbnails of images, videos and documents, it also allows you to see those files directly from Terminology.

You can watch a following demonstrations video created by the Terminology developer (the video quality isn’t clear, but still it’s enough to get the idea about Terminology).

16. Xfce4 terminal

Xfce terminal is a lightweight modern and easy to use terminal emulator specially designed for Xfce desktop environment. The latest release of xfce terminal has some new cool features such as search dialog, tab color changer, drop-down console like Guake or Yakuake and many more.

Xfce Terminal

17. xterm

The xterm application is a standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It maintain DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for applications that can’t use the window system directly.

xterm Terminal

18. LilyTerm

The LilyTerm is a another less known open source terminal emulator based off of libvte that desire to be fast and lightweight. LilyTerm also include some key features such as:

1. Support for tabbing, coloring and reordering tabs
2. Ability to manage tabs through keybindings
3. Support for background transparency and saturation.
4. Support for user specific profile creation.
5. Several customization options for profiles.
6. Extensive UTF-8 support.

Lilyterm Terminal

19. Sakura

The sakura is a another less known Unix style terminal emulator developed for command line purpose as well as text-based terminal programs. Sakura is based on GTK and livte and provides not more advanced features but some customization options such as multiple tab support, custom text color, font and background images, speedy command processing and few more.

Sakura Terminal

20. rxvt-unicode

The rxvt-unicode (also known as urxvt) is a yet another highly customizable, lightweight and fast terminal emulator with xft and unicode support was developed by Marc Lehmann. It got some outstanding features such as support for international language via Unicode, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions.

rxvt unicode

If you know any other capable Linux terminal emulators that I’ve not included in the above list, please do share with me using our comment section.

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