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Hyper Cool Retro Term Yakuake Terminator Terminology
Terminal emulators
Whenever you access the command line from a desktop environment, W you need to use a terminal emulator. Every major desktop environment comes with a basic terminal emulator, but there are other choices if you crave better looks and more features.
Yakuake takes inspiration from the terminal in the Quake series of games in that it drops down from the top of the screen when you hit a hotkey – an efficient and useful arrangement.
Cool Retro Term cranks up the nostalgia as it can simulate the look of many different types of CRT displays of yore. It looks amazing, but it’s also a perfectly good terminal emulator for serious work.
Hyper has a cool-looking minimalist appearance, and it’s based upon the Electron toolkit and has a huge scope for customisation for those with the inclination and expertise in CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
Terminology is the terminal emulator of the Enlightenment desktop environment and has a few visual extras compared to most.
Terminator offers extensive screen-splitting features so that you can have multiple terminals within one window. It also has a lot of configuration options and great documentation.
Installation
Generally, most of these tools were out of date in the Linux Mint repositories. For Hyper, we downloaded the DEB archive from the website. This worked fine, and there is also an RPM. Manually installing architecture-specific packages like this can present a problem due to updating, but once it’s installed, Hyper monitors for updates and automatically installs the latest version for you. This behaviour can be toggled off. There is an AppImage file, but that format, which does not install it
