Alternatives to Deepin Terminal
A Qt terminal emulator from the Deepin desktop with workspaces, remote server management and quake mode. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Deepin Terminal
A Qt terminal emulator from the Deepin desktop with workspaces, remote server management and quake mode.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Deepin Terminal.
Terminator
A Linux terminal emulator that arranges several GNOME terminals in grids of split panes within one window.
Terminator arranges GNOME terminals in grids of split panes and is scriptable through remotinator, but lacks Deepin Terminal's built-in remote server management.
Tilix
A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK 3, with split panes and saved sessions.
Tilix is a GTK 3 tiling terminal with split panes and restorable session layouts, though the project is looking for new maintainers.
Konsole
KDE's terminal emulator for running a command shell, with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search.
Konsole brings tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search from KDE, with builds for Windows and macOS as well as Linux.
Tabby
A terminal, SSH client and serial console in one window, with a connection manager and an encrypted secret store.
Tabby adds a connection manager for SSH, Telnet and serial with an encrypted secret store across Windows, macOS and Linux, using Electron instead of Qt.
QTerminal
A lightweight Qt terminal emulator maintained by the LXQt desktop project.
QTerminal is a lighter Qt terminal from LXQt with tabs, split panes and a drop-down mode, but fewer features and no saved server management.
Electerm
Manage terminal and remote-file connections in one application.
Electerm combines terminal and SFTP remote-file connections in one app for Windows, macOS and Linux, though protocol support varies by platform.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Yakuake
A drop-down terminal emulator for KDE, based on Konsole, that rolls down from the top of the screen.
Guake
A Python-based drop-down terminal for GNOME, modelled on the console in Quake.
Tilda
A GTK drop-down terminal for Linux that slides in from the screen edge on a hotkey.
tmux
Keeps terminal sessions alive on a server after you disconnect, and splits one window into many.
OpenSSH
The standard SSH client and server suite for encrypted remote login, file copying and tunnelling.
