Alternatives to LXTerminal
A lightweight VTE-based terminal emulator from the LXDE project with tab support. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
LXTerminal
A lightweight VTE-based terminal emulator from the LXDE project with tab support.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as LXTerminal.
Xfce Terminal
The lightweight terminal emulator of the Xfce desktop, with tabs and a drop-down window mode.
Xfce Terminal is similarly light on resources and adds a drop-down window mode, unlimited scrollback and a shortcut editor, fitting best on Xfce.
QTerminal
A lightweight Qt terminal emulator maintained by the LXQt desktop project.
QTerminal is a lightweight Qt terminal from LXQt that adds split panes and a drop-down mode alongside tabs.
GNOME Terminal
The long-standing VTE-based terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
GNOME Terminal is also VTE-based and maintained by the GNOME project, integrating with that desktop at the cost of heavier dependencies.
xterm
The long-running terminal emulator for the X Window System, with DEC VT and Tektronix compatibility.
xterm offers very thorough DEC VT emulation and runs almost everywhere on X11, but has no tabs and is configured through X resources.
st
The suckless simple terminal, a minimal X terminal emulator configured by editing its source code.
st is the suckless minimal X terminal with a tiny codebase, configured by editing C source and recompiling, and lacking tabs without patches.
foot
A fast, lightweight and minimalistic terminal emulator built for Wayland on Linux and FreeBSD.
foot is a fast, minimal terminal for Wayland only, with no X11 support and no tabs.
Konsole
KDE's terminal emulator for running a command shell, with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search.
Konsole adds profiles, activity monitoring and output search with monthly releases, but is designed around KDE Plasma and uses more resources.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
tmux
Keeps terminal sessions alive on a server after you disconnect, and splits one window into many.
GNU Screen
A terminal multiplexer that runs several shell sessions in one window and keeps them alive after disconnecting.
Tilda
A GTK drop-down terminal for Linux that slides in from the screen edge on a hotkey.
