Re: X terminal recommendations (was Re: Mailing list unusually inactive?)
On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 13:14 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Wed Oct 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > And let's keep some Debian-related content: I recently did a
> > > quick review of 43 or so terminal emulators; all but one of them
> > > is available in Debian Stable.
> > >
> > > https://blog.randomstring.org/2025/09/26/a-comparison-of-terminal-emulators/
One thing that is interesting to note is that sometimes several
terminal emulators are based on the same library, so they mostly work
the same, have (or lack) the same features & bugs, etc.--except for
anything related to the application around the actual terminal
emulator, of course.
* libvte (used in most Gtk-based terminal emulators, including Gnome
Terminal, Gnome Console, XFCE Terminal, lxterminal, Guake, Blackbox,
Sakura, Sugar, Terminator, Tilda, Tilix, …)
* konsole-kpart (used in some KDE-based ones)
* qml-module-termwidget (used in QML-based Qt/KDE applications)
* libqtermwidget (used in other Qt applications)
* … etc?
Maybe a useful addition to note that with each terminal emulator?
(You can usually figure out what library is used from a package's
dependencies in Debian, for those that are packaged there, or working
the other way around looking at reverse dependencies on the libraries
and/or language bindings for the libraries.)
--
Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
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