Alternatives to cool-retro-term
A terminal emulator that imitates the look of old cathode-ray tube screens. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
cool-retro-term
A terminal emulator that imitates the look of old cathode-ray tube screens.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as cool-retro-term.
GNOME Terminal
The long-standing VTE-based terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
GNOME Terminal drops the CRT effects for plain, readable text on the VTE library, integrated with the GNOME desktop.
Konsole
KDE's terminal emulator for running a command shell, with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search.
Konsole gives up the retro look for tabs, profiles and output search, and also has Windows and macOS builds.
xterm
The long-running terminal emulator for the X Window System, with DEC VT and Tektronix compatibility.
xterm offers precise DEC VT and Tektronix emulation on X11 without visual effects, configured through X resources.
Alacritty
A deliberately minimal OpenGL terminal that leaves multiplexing and tabs to other programs and just draws text fast.
Alacritty is a minimal, fast OpenGL terminal that also runs on Windows and macOS, with no visual effects and no tabs.
Terminology
A terminal emulator for Linux and BSD built on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, with inline media previews.
Terminology is an EFL-based Linux and BSD terminal with inline media previews and optional OpenGL rendering instead of CRT styling.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Gogh
A collection of hundreds of terminal color schemes, installed into your terminal with a single command.
Nerd Fonts
A collection of programming fonts patched with thousands of icons, plus a patcher for adding them to other fonts.
asciinema
A tool for recording terminal sessions as lightweight text-based recordings and sharing them online.
