Alternatives to QTerminal
A lightweight Qt terminal emulator maintained by the LXQt desktop project. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
QTerminal
A lightweight Qt terminal emulator maintained by the LXQt desktop project.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as QTerminal.
LXTerminal
A lightweight VTE-based terminal emulator from the LXDE project with tab support.
LXTerminal is a lightweight VTE-based terminal from LXDE with tabs and low memory use, but it lacks split panes and development is slow.
Xfce Terminal
The lightweight terminal emulator of the Xfce desktop, with tabs and a drop-down window mode.
Xfce Terminal is similarly light with tabs and a drop-down mode, using GTK instead of Qt and fitting best on Xfce.
Konsole
KDE's terminal emulator for running a command shell, with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search.
Konsole is a fuller Qt-based KDE terminal with profiles, bookmarks, activity monitoring and output search, at a higher resource cost.
Terminator
A Linux terminal emulator that arranges several GNOME terminals in grids of split panes within one window.
Terminator focuses on grids of split panes and is scriptable through remotinator, built on GNOME terminal technology for GTK desktops.
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 saved session layouts, though the project is looking for new maintainers.
GNOME Terminal
The long-standing VTE-based terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
GNOME Terminal is the VTE-based GNOME default, dependable and integrated with that desktop, with no split panes or drop-down mode.
foot
A fast, lightweight and minimalistic terminal emulator built for Wayland on Linux and FreeBSD.
foot is a fast, minimal Wayland-only terminal without tabs, lighter still but lacking QTerminal's split panes.
Also worth comparing
These listings name QTerminal as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Deepin Terminal
A Qt terminal emulator from the Deepin desktop with workspaces, remote server management and quake mode.
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.
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.
