Alternatives to Terminology
A terminal emulator for Linux and BSD built on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, with inline media previews. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Terminology
A terminal emulator for Linux and BSD built on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, with inline media previews.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Terminology.
kitty
GPU-accelerated terminal with tabs, splits, graphics and a kitten scripting system.
kitty shows inline images through its own graphics protocol, adds tabs, splits and kittens, runs on macOS and Linux, and does not depend on the EFL libraries.
Konsole
KDE's terminal emulator for running a command shell, with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search.
Konsole is KDE's terminal with tabs, profiles, bookmarks and output search, built for Plasma rather than EFL, and without Terminology's inline media previews.
GNOME Terminal
The long-standing VTE-based terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
GNOME Terminal is a VTE-based terminal integrated with the GNOME desktop, with a conservative feature set and no inline media previews or framebuffer mode.
WezTerm
A GPU-accelerated terminal that is also a multiplexer, configured in Lua and the same on every platform.
WezTerm displays images with its imgcat command, adds built-in multiplexing and Lua configuration, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux instead of only Linux and BSD.
Alacritty
A deliberately minimal OpenGL terminal that leaves multiplexing and tabs to other programs and just draws text fast.
Alacritty is a minimal OpenGL terminal for Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD with Vi mode and search, but no tabs, multiplexer or media previews.
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 or framebuffer support, no tabs and no media previews, but frequent releases.
Ghostty
A GPU-accelerated terminal that uses the real native interface of the platform instead of drawing its own.
Ghostty offers GPU rendering with native window chrome on macOS and Linux and a single text configuration file, without Terminology's inline media previews.
xterm
The long-running terminal emulator for the X Window System, with DEC VT and Tektronix compatibility.
xterm offers very thorough DEC VT and Tektronix emulation on X11, configured through X resources, with no tabs, split panes or Wayland support.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Terminology as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
cool-retro-term
A terminal emulator that imitates the look of old cathode-ray tube screens.
Terminology is an EFL-based Linux and BSD terminal with inline media previews and optional OpenGL rendering instead of CRT styling.
st
The suckless simple terminal, a minimal X terminal emulator configured by editing its source code.
Terminology is an EFL-based terminal for Linux and BSD running on X11, Wayland or framebuffer, with inline media previews and compressed scrollback built in.
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.
Nerd Fonts
A collection of programming fonts patched with thousands of icons, plus a patcher for adding them to other fonts.
Gogh
A collection of hundreds of terminal color schemes, installed into your terminal with a single command.
