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          As suggested in the iterm2 website itself (under "Hotkey Window"). There is guake, tilda and yakuake. Which can be installed from repositories.



          I personally use guake. If you use unity, I have written an indicator for guake although you can easily enable systray in unity as well.






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          • what about go terminal?

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            I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

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          • These all (guake, tilda and yakuake) suck and have nothing to do with iterm2. You could suggest terminator which is also nowhere near iterm2 but better than those three.

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          You can try terminator, search for it in the Software Centre.



          I'm not sure whether it provides the feature you require, but it offers some other good features of iterm2 like horizontal and vertical window split






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              A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

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              This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

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            Here's a short list of iterm2 (v3) features:




            • True color (16 million color) support

            • Split panes

            • Transparency

            • Show images (i.e. imgcat)

            • Show inline images e.g. beer mug for homebrew

            • Full support/integration for various shells (e.g. zsh, fish)

            • Hotkey support (e.g. drop-down terminal)


            I haven't even come close to listing them all, although these are the ones I use/care about the most.



            I cannot find a single linux terminal that completely matches this feature set (much less all the ones I didn't mention) but there are linux terminals that come pretty darn close, and can do things that iterm2 can't do (like set per window/pane background images). So here are a few terminals that are probably closest to iterm2 in terms of feature parity:



            Qterminal



            This is an abbreviation of qt terminal. It has full true color support, a dropdown hotkey, transparency, background image, panes, tabs, shell integration. Install via apt. Cons: no built-in way to preview images, it's handling of background images can be wonky.



            Konsole



            The default KDE terminal (e.g. for kubuntu) has true color, tabs, background image, transparency. Cons: no hot-keyed drop down window, no independent panes, handling of background images can be wonky.



            Kitty



            A terminal that AFAICT was just written by one guy with a surprisingly rich feature set: has true color, horizontal splits, transparency, shows images, shell integration. Cons: no background images (there's an issue open), no vertical splits without configuration, no drop down, and while it has packages for several distros ubuntu isn't one of them (have to manually install deps and compile from source).



            Terminology



            The default terminal of the Enlightenment desktop. It by far has the best image handling of any terminal emulator I've ever used and has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Has resizable independent panes (vertical and horizontal), tabs, transparency, shell integration, but it lacks true color support (maintainer says he will not be adding it) which is becoming increasingly annoying as a heavy neovim/ncurses user. Cons: 256 color only, no drop down, package in repositories is extremely out of date and installing/compiling the latest version of the EFL dependencies literally takes half an hour.





            There are a lot of other worthy terminal emulators: rxvt-unicode, suckless, termite, etc. but they all have glaring flaws, sometimes even worse than the above. Suckless (st) for example keeps it's configuration in a header file meaning every config change requires a recompile. Many of them (including some of the ones I highlighted above like konsole) seem to be configurable only via mouse, which is beyond annoying for a terminal emulator.



            Many might consider the existence of tmux to make splits/panes a non-issue for the terminal itself. I don't disagree, but YMMV.



            There's a glaring omission: I haven't mentioned any of the electron-based projects like hyper. That's because I personally keep about 12 different terminal sessions going at a given time, and electron is just too greedy for that kind of usage. Which is a shame, as some of those offerings have impressive feature sets. If you tend to have fewer sessions open you might give one of them a try, I've played with extraterm and it seems a little more in line with what iterm2 offers.



            I wish everyone luck, but my quest for the one true terminal emulator continues onward.






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              I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

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            • @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

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            • Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

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              @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

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            I would suggest guake Install guake



            Which has an overlay and the "hotkey window" and stuff like that






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            • I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

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            • // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

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            DomTerm supports many of the features of iterm2 and more: Shell integration, split panes, inline html (images and rich text), detachable sessions, very solid xterm emulation.






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              Just to add Hyper to the list. It's an electron based terminal that's fairly neat, stable, and easy to use with lots of configuration options.



              https://hyper.is/






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              • And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

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              iTerm2 does amazing things, but so far only for Mac OS X. (github)



              extraterm is a terminal emulator for Linux, Mac and Windows that does different amazing things.






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              • // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

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              • Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

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                  As suggested in the iterm2 website itself (under "Hotkey Window"). There is guake, tilda and yakuake. Which can be installed from repositories.



                  I personally use guake. If you use unity, I have written an indicator for guake although you can easily enable systray in unity as well.






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                  • what about go terminal?

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                    Suggested at where? what?

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                    I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

                    – Machisuji
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                  • These all (guake, tilda and yakuake) suck and have nothing to do with iterm2. You could suggest terminator which is also nowhere near iterm2 but better than those three.

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                  As suggested in the iterm2 website itself (under "Hotkey Window"). There is guake, tilda and yakuake. Which can be installed from repositories.



                  I personally use guake. If you use unity, I have written an indicator for guake although you can easily enable systray in unity as well.






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                    I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

                    – Machisuji
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                  As suggested in the iterm2 website itself (under "Hotkey Window"). There is guake, tilda and yakuake. Which can be installed from repositories.



                  I personally use guake. If you use unity, I have written an indicator for guake although you can easily enable systray in unity as well.






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                  As suggested in the iterm2 website itself (under "Hotkey Window"). There is guake, tilda and yakuake. Which can be installed from repositories.



                  I personally use guake. If you use unity, I have written an indicator for guake although you can easily enable systray in unity as well.







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                  • what about go terminal?

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                    I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

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                  • These all (guake, tilda and yakuake) suck and have nothing to do with iterm2. You could suggest terminator which is also nowhere near iterm2 but better than those three.

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                    I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

                    – Machisuji
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                  I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

                  – Machisuji
                  Apr 30 '18 at 8:17







                  I'm currently using yakuake but it's only a drop down terminal. The great thing about iTerm2 is that you can have normal, non-dropdown terminal windows positioned freely on the screen and still bring those up using the global hotkey. Does any of the linux terminals have that?

                  – Machisuji
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                  These all (guake, tilda and yakuake) suck and have nothing to do with iterm2. You could suggest terminator which is also nowhere near iterm2 but better than those three.

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                            A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

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                            This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

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                          • Great man, thanx. I've been looking for this long time.

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                            A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

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                            This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

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                            A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

                            – Kaspar
                            Oct 24 '17 at 20:09






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                            This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

                            – fquinner
                            Oct 12 '18 at 17:34











                          • Great man, thanx. I've been looking for this long time.

                            – DimiDak
                            Feb 20 at 14:59














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                            A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

                            – Kaspar
                            Oct 24 '17 at 20:09






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                            This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

                            – fquinner
                            Oct 12 '18 at 17:34











                          • Great man, thanx. I've been looking for this long time.

                            – DimiDak
                            Feb 20 at 14:59








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                          A link here: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web

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                          This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

                          – fquinner
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                          This definitely is the closest to iterm2 in terms of split windowing and style i have seen thanks!

                          – fquinner
                          Oct 12 '18 at 17:34













                          Great man, thanx. I've been looking for this long time.

                          – DimiDak
                          Feb 20 at 14:59





                          Great man, thanx. I've been looking for this long time.

                          – DimiDak
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                          Here's a short list of iterm2 (v3) features:




                          • True color (16 million color) support

                          • Split panes

                          • Transparency

                          • Show images (i.e. imgcat)

                          • Show inline images e.g. beer mug for homebrew

                          • Full support/integration for various shells (e.g. zsh, fish)

                          • Hotkey support (e.g. drop-down terminal)


                          I haven't even come close to listing them all, although these are the ones I use/care about the most.



                          I cannot find a single linux terminal that completely matches this feature set (much less all the ones I didn't mention) but there are linux terminals that come pretty darn close, and can do things that iterm2 can't do (like set per window/pane background images). So here are a few terminals that are probably closest to iterm2 in terms of feature parity:



                          Qterminal



                          This is an abbreviation of qt terminal. It has full true color support, a dropdown hotkey, transparency, background image, panes, tabs, shell integration. Install via apt. Cons: no built-in way to preview images, it's handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Konsole



                          The default KDE terminal (e.g. for kubuntu) has true color, tabs, background image, transparency. Cons: no hot-keyed drop down window, no independent panes, handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Kitty



                          A terminal that AFAICT was just written by one guy with a surprisingly rich feature set: has true color, horizontal splits, transparency, shows images, shell integration. Cons: no background images (there's an issue open), no vertical splits without configuration, no drop down, and while it has packages for several distros ubuntu isn't one of them (have to manually install deps and compile from source).



                          Terminology



                          The default terminal of the Enlightenment desktop. It by far has the best image handling of any terminal emulator I've ever used and has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Has resizable independent panes (vertical and horizontal), tabs, transparency, shell integration, but it lacks true color support (maintainer says he will not be adding it) which is becoming increasingly annoying as a heavy neovim/ncurses user. Cons: 256 color only, no drop down, package in repositories is extremely out of date and installing/compiling the latest version of the EFL dependencies literally takes half an hour.





                          There are a lot of other worthy terminal emulators: rxvt-unicode, suckless, termite, etc. but they all have glaring flaws, sometimes even worse than the above. Suckless (st) for example keeps it's configuration in a header file meaning every config change requires a recompile. Many of them (including some of the ones I highlighted above like konsole) seem to be configurable only via mouse, which is beyond annoying for a terminal emulator.



                          Many might consider the existence of tmux to make splits/panes a non-issue for the terminal itself. I don't disagree, but YMMV.



                          There's a glaring omission: I haven't mentioned any of the electron-based projects like hyper. That's because I personally keep about 12 different terminal sessions going at a given time, and electron is just too greedy for that kind of usage. Which is a shame, as some of those offerings have impressive feature sets. If you tend to have fewer sessions open you might give one of them a try, I've played with extraterm and it seems a little more in line with what iterm2 offers.



                          I wish everyone luck, but my quest for the one true terminal emulator continues onward.






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                            I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 23 '18 at 22:45











                          • @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 0:03













                          • Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 24 '18 at 3:22






                          • 1





                            @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 10:27
















                          7














                          Current as of 9/2018



                          Here's a short list of iterm2 (v3) features:




                          • True color (16 million color) support

                          • Split panes

                          • Transparency

                          • Show images (i.e. imgcat)

                          • Show inline images e.g. beer mug for homebrew

                          • Full support/integration for various shells (e.g. zsh, fish)

                          • Hotkey support (e.g. drop-down terminal)


                          I haven't even come close to listing them all, although these are the ones I use/care about the most.



                          I cannot find a single linux terminal that completely matches this feature set (much less all the ones I didn't mention) but there are linux terminals that come pretty darn close, and can do things that iterm2 can't do (like set per window/pane background images). So here are a few terminals that are probably closest to iterm2 in terms of feature parity:



                          Qterminal



                          This is an abbreviation of qt terminal. It has full true color support, a dropdown hotkey, transparency, background image, panes, tabs, shell integration. Install via apt. Cons: no built-in way to preview images, it's handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Konsole



                          The default KDE terminal (e.g. for kubuntu) has true color, tabs, background image, transparency. Cons: no hot-keyed drop down window, no independent panes, handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Kitty



                          A terminal that AFAICT was just written by one guy with a surprisingly rich feature set: has true color, horizontal splits, transparency, shows images, shell integration. Cons: no background images (there's an issue open), no vertical splits without configuration, no drop down, and while it has packages for several distros ubuntu isn't one of them (have to manually install deps and compile from source).



                          Terminology



                          The default terminal of the Enlightenment desktop. It by far has the best image handling of any terminal emulator I've ever used and has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Has resizable independent panes (vertical and horizontal), tabs, transparency, shell integration, but it lacks true color support (maintainer says he will not be adding it) which is becoming increasingly annoying as a heavy neovim/ncurses user. Cons: 256 color only, no drop down, package in repositories is extremely out of date and installing/compiling the latest version of the EFL dependencies literally takes half an hour.





                          There are a lot of other worthy terminal emulators: rxvt-unicode, suckless, termite, etc. but they all have glaring flaws, sometimes even worse than the above. Suckless (st) for example keeps it's configuration in a header file meaning every config change requires a recompile. Many of them (including some of the ones I highlighted above like konsole) seem to be configurable only via mouse, which is beyond annoying for a terminal emulator.



                          Many might consider the existence of tmux to make splits/panes a non-issue for the terminal itself. I don't disagree, but YMMV.



                          There's a glaring omission: I haven't mentioned any of the electron-based projects like hyper. That's because I personally keep about 12 different terminal sessions going at a given time, and electron is just too greedy for that kind of usage. Which is a shame, as some of those offerings have impressive feature sets. If you tend to have fewer sessions open you might give one of them a try, I've played with extraterm and it seems a little more in line with what iterm2 offers.



                          I wish everyone luck, but my quest for the one true terminal emulator continues onward.






                          share|improve this answer





















                          • 1





                            I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 23 '18 at 22:45











                          • @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 0:03













                          • Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 24 '18 at 3:22






                          • 1





                            @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 10:27














                          7












                          7








                          7







                          Current as of 9/2018



                          Here's a short list of iterm2 (v3) features:




                          • True color (16 million color) support

                          • Split panes

                          • Transparency

                          • Show images (i.e. imgcat)

                          • Show inline images e.g. beer mug for homebrew

                          • Full support/integration for various shells (e.g. zsh, fish)

                          • Hotkey support (e.g. drop-down terminal)


                          I haven't even come close to listing them all, although these are the ones I use/care about the most.



                          I cannot find a single linux terminal that completely matches this feature set (much less all the ones I didn't mention) but there are linux terminals that come pretty darn close, and can do things that iterm2 can't do (like set per window/pane background images). So here are a few terminals that are probably closest to iterm2 in terms of feature parity:



                          Qterminal



                          This is an abbreviation of qt terminal. It has full true color support, a dropdown hotkey, transparency, background image, panes, tabs, shell integration. Install via apt. Cons: no built-in way to preview images, it's handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Konsole



                          The default KDE terminal (e.g. for kubuntu) has true color, tabs, background image, transparency. Cons: no hot-keyed drop down window, no independent panes, handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Kitty



                          A terminal that AFAICT was just written by one guy with a surprisingly rich feature set: has true color, horizontal splits, transparency, shows images, shell integration. Cons: no background images (there's an issue open), no vertical splits without configuration, no drop down, and while it has packages for several distros ubuntu isn't one of them (have to manually install deps and compile from source).



                          Terminology



                          The default terminal of the Enlightenment desktop. It by far has the best image handling of any terminal emulator I've ever used and has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Has resizable independent panes (vertical and horizontal), tabs, transparency, shell integration, but it lacks true color support (maintainer says he will not be adding it) which is becoming increasingly annoying as a heavy neovim/ncurses user. Cons: 256 color only, no drop down, package in repositories is extremely out of date and installing/compiling the latest version of the EFL dependencies literally takes half an hour.





                          There are a lot of other worthy terminal emulators: rxvt-unicode, suckless, termite, etc. but they all have glaring flaws, sometimes even worse than the above. Suckless (st) for example keeps it's configuration in a header file meaning every config change requires a recompile. Many of them (including some of the ones I highlighted above like konsole) seem to be configurable only via mouse, which is beyond annoying for a terminal emulator.



                          Many might consider the existence of tmux to make splits/panes a non-issue for the terminal itself. I don't disagree, but YMMV.



                          There's a glaring omission: I haven't mentioned any of the electron-based projects like hyper. That's because I personally keep about 12 different terminal sessions going at a given time, and electron is just too greedy for that kind of usage. Which is a shame, as some of those offerings have impressive feature sets. If you tend to have fewer sessions open you might give one of them a try, I've played with extraterm and it seems a little more in line with what iterm2 offers.



                          I wish everyone luck, but my quest for the one true terminal emulator continues onward.






                          share|improve this answer















                          Current as of 9/2018



                          Here's a short list of iterm2 (v3) features:




                          • True color (16 million color) support

                          • Split panes

                          • Transparency

                          • Show images (i.e. imgcat)

                          • Show inline images e.g. beer mug for homebrew

                          • Full support/integration for various shells (e.g. zsh, fish)

                          • Hotkey support (e.g. drop-down terminal)


                          I haven't even come close to listing them all, although these are the ones I use/care about the most.



                          I cannot find a single linux terminal that completely matches this feature set (much less all the ones I didn't mention) but there are linux terminals that come pretty darn close, and can do things that iterm2 can't do (like set per window/pane background images). So here are a few terminals that are probably closest to iterm2 in terms of feature parity:



                          Qterminal



                          This is an abbreviation of qt terminal. It has full true color support, a dropdown hotkey, transparency, background image, panes, tabs, shell integration. Install via apt. Cons: no built-in way to preview images, it's handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Konsole



                          The default KDE terminal (e.g. for kubuntu) has true color, tabs, background image, transparency. Cons: no hot-keyed drop down window, no independent panes, handling of background images can be wonky.



                          Kitty



                          A terminal that AFAICT was just written by one guy with a surprisingly rich feature set: has true color, horizontal splits, transparency, shows images, shell integration. Cons: no background images (there's an issue open), no vertical splits without configuration, no drop down, and while it has packages for several distros ubuntu isn't one of them (have to manually install deps and compile from source).



                          Terminology



                          The default terminal of the Enlightenment desktop. It by far has the best image handling of any terminal emulator I've ever used and has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Has resizable independent panes (vertical and horizontal), tabs, transparency, shell integration, but it lacks true color support (maintainer says he will not be adding it) which is becoming increasingly annoying as a heavy neovim/ncurses user. Cons: 256 color only, no drop down, package in repositories is extremely out of date and installing/compiling the latest version of the EFL dependencies literally takes half an hour.





                          There are a lot of other worthy terminal emulators: rxvt-unicode, suckless, termite, etc. but they all have glaring flaws, sometimes even worse than the above. Suckless (st) for example keeps it's configuration in a header file meaning every config change requires a recompile. Many of them (including some of the ones I highlighted above like konsole) seem to be configurable only via mouse, which is beyond annoying for a terminal emulator.



                          Many might consider the existence of tmux to make splits/panes a non-issue for the terminal itself. I don't disagree, but YMMV.



                          There's a glaring omission: I haven't mentioned any of the electron-based projects like hyper. That's because I personally keep about 12 different terminal sessions going at a given time, and electron is just too greedy for that kind of usage. Which is a shame, as some of those offerings have impressive feature sets. If you tend to have fewer sessions open you might give one of them a try, I've played with extraterm and it seems a little more in line with what iterm2 offers.



                          I wish everyone luck, but my quest for the one true terminal emulator continues onward.







                          share|improve this answer














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                            I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 23 '18 at 22:45











                          • @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 0:03













                          • Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 24 '18 at 3:22






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                            @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 10:27














                          • 1





                            I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 23 '18 at 22:45











                          • @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 0:03













                          • Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                            – Steven Shaw
                            Oct 24 '18 at 3:22






                          • 1





                            @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                            – Jared Smith
                            Oct 24 '18 at 10:27








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                          1





                          I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                          – Steven Shaw
                          Oct 23 '18 at 22:45





                          I continue to be awed by iTerm2. I use the tmux control-mode integration daily though I only use separate tabs (not split panes). I wonder how plausible a Linux port would be?

                          – Steven Shaw
                          Oct 23 '18 at 22:45













                          @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                          – Jared Smith
                          Oct 24 '18 at 0:03







                          @StevenShaw probably hard enough to approach being a total rewrite. It's almost certainly written in Objective-C/Swift with Mac OS graphics API calls strewn liberally about. Have no idea if the ioctls are completely different or not between linux and darwin, but I would suspect that they are. But anyways, yes: I find it ironic that freakin Mac OS, aka the Fisher-Price pretty picture OS, has a better terminal emulator than Linux.

                          – Jared Smith
                          Oct 24 '18 at 0:03















                          Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                          – Steven Shaw
                          Oct 24 '18 at 3:22





                          Not sure that Objective-C or Swift pose a particular difficulty on Linux these days but macOS graphics APIs sure do. Perhaps there'd be much to salvage of the non-UI stuff (like pty, tmux control-mode etc). Anyhow, thought I'd say thanks for mentioning Kitty as it looks like one to watch on the Linux side! The author wrote the hugely popular Calibre app.

                          – Steven Shaw
                          Oct 24 '18 at 3:22




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                          @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                          – Jared Smith
                          Oct 24 '18 at 10:27





                          @StevenShaw Tilix is another one I should have mentioned in my answer, it's pretty good although it does it's configuration through dconf while I prefer text/ini/markdown/json, but it's pretty good.

                          – Jared Smith
                          Oct 24 '18 at 10:27











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                          I would suggest guake Install guake



                          Which has an overlay and the "hotkey window" and stuff like that






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                          • I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                            – Dunhamzzz
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:33











                          • Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                            – Amith KK
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:49











                          • // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                            – Nathan Basanese
                            Feb 2 '18 at 20:41
















                          6














                          I would suggest guake Install guake



                          Which has an overlay and the "hotkey window" and stuff like that






                          share|improve this answer


























                          • I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                            – Dunhamzzz
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:33











                          • Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                            – Amith KK
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:49











                          • // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                            – Nathan Basanese
                            Feb 2 '18 at 20:41














                          6












                          6








                          6







                          I would suggest guake Install guake



                          Which has an overlay and the "hotkey window" and stuff like that






                          share|improve this answer















                          I would suggest guake Install guake



                          Which has an overlay and the "hotkey window" and stuff like that







                          share|improve this answer














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                          answered Apr 2 '12 at 10:18









                          Amith KKAmith KK

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                          • I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                            – Dunhamzzz
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:33











                          • Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                            – Amith KK
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:49











                          • // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                            – Nathan Basanese
                            Feb 2 '18 at 20:41



















                          • I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                            – Dunhamzzz
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:33











                          • Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                            – Amith KK
                            Apr 2 '12 at 10:49











                          • // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                            – Nathan Basanese
                            Feb 2 '18 at 20:41

















                          I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                          – Dunhamzzz
                          Apr 2 '12 at 10:33





                          I can't find any settings for a hotkey....

                          – Dunhamzzz
                          Apr 2 '12 at 10:33













                          Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                          – Amith KK
                          Apr 2 '12 at 10:49





                          Whoops @Dunhamzzz Wrong link :D

                          – Amith KK
                          Apr 2 '12 at 10:49













                          // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                          – Nathan Basanese
                          Feb 2 '18 at 20:41





                          // , In my experience Guake does not allow screens to be split vertically. This can happen with tmux, but I'd prefer something more analogous to iTerm2.

                          – Nathan Basanese
                          Feb 2 '18 at 20:41











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                          DomTerm supports many of the features of iterm2 and more: Shell integration, split panes, inline html (images and rich text), detachable sessions, very solid xterm emulation.






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                            DomTerm supports many of the features of iterm2 and more: Shell integration, split panes, inline html (images and rich text), detachable sessions, very solid xterm emulation.






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                              2







                              DomTerm supports many of the features of iterm2 and more: Shell integration, split panes, inline html (images and rich text), detachable sessions, very solid xterm emulation.






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                              DomTerm supports many of the features of iterm2 and more: Shell integration, split panes, inline html (images and rich text), detachable sessions, very solid xterm emulation.







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                              answered Jan 19 at 16:57









                              Per BothnerPer Bothner

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                                  Just to add Hyper to the list. It's an electron based terminal that's fairly neat, stable, and easy to use with lots of configuration options.



                                  https://hyper.is/






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                                  • And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                    – Benjamin R
                                    Mar 28 at 8:41
















                                  2














                                  Just to add Hyper to the list. It's an electron based terminal that's fairly neat, stable, and easy to use with lots of configuration options.



                                  https://hyper.is/






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                                  • And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                    – Benjamin R
                                    Mar 28 at 8:41














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                                  2








                                  2







                                  Just to add Hyper to the list. It's an electron based terminal that's fairly neat, stable, and easy to use with lots of configuration options.



                                  https://hyper.is/






                                  share|improve this answer













                                  Just to add Hyper to the list. It's an electron based terminal that's fairly neat, stable, and easy to use with lots of configuration options.



                                  https://hyper.is/







                                  share|improve this answer












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                                  answered Feb 8 at 17:35









                                  Gilberto TreviñoGilberto Treviño

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                                  • And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                    – Benjamin R
                                    Mar 28 at 8:41



















                                  • And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                    – Benjamin R
                                    Mar 28 at 8:41

















                                  And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                  – Benjamin R
                                  Mar 28 at 8:41





                                  And fantastically expensive to use, and lacks any of the stability essential of a terminal. It's also slow! Sorry but no.

                                  – Benjamin R
                                  Mar 28 at 8:41











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                                  iTerm2 does amazing things, but so far only for Mac OS X. (github)



                                  extraterm is a terminal emulator for Linux, Mac and Windows that does different amazing things.






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                                  • // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                    – Nathan Basanese
                                    Feb 2 '18 at 20:41











                                  • Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                    – DimiDak
                                    Feb 20 at 15:23
















                                  2














                                  iTerm2 does amazing things, but so far only for Mac OS X. (github)



                                  extraterm is a terminal emulator for Linux, Mac and Windows that does different amazing things.






                                  share|improve this answer


























                                  • // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                    – Nathan Basanese
                                    Feb 2 '18 at 20:41











                                  • Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                    – DimiDak
                                    Feb 20 at 15:23














                                  2












                                  2








                                  2







                                  iTerm2 does amazing things, but so far only for Mac OS X. (github)



                                  extraterm is a terminal emulator for Linux, Mac and Windows that does different amazing things.






                                  share|improve this answer















                                  iTerm2 does amazing things, but so far only for Mac OS X. (github)



                                  extraterm is a terminal emulator for Linux, Mac and Windows that does different amazing things.







                                  share|improve this answer














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                                  answered Dec 28 '17 at 13:37









                                  joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle

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                                  • // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                    – Nathan Basanese
                                    Feb 2 '18 at 20:41











                                  • Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                    – DimiDak
                                    Feb 20 at 15:23



















                                  • // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                    – Nathan Basanese
                                    Feb 2 '18 at 20:41











                                  • Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                    – DimiDak
                                    Feb 20 at 15:23

















                                  // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                  – Nathan Basanese
                                  Feb 2 '18 at 20:41





                                  // , How does extraterm compare to linux software like terminator?

                                  – Nathan Basanese
                                  Feb 2 '18 at 20:41













                                  Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                  – DimiDak
                                  Feb 20 at 15:23





                                  Thanx but you can not install that thing, and when running it inside the folder it comes, nothing happens. Tilix is the shit as it seems.

                                  – DimiDak
                                  Feb 20 at 15:23











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                                  kitty is a cross-platform terminal emulator with GPU rendering, Python scriptable, and feature-full.






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                                    kitty is a cross-platform terminal emulator with GPU rendering, Python scriptable, and feature-full.






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                                          You can use Tmux. Simple, powerfull, and it's in repo.






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