Terminal emulators reviewed

I spend a lot of time at the command line, so a good terminal emulator is important to me. Unfortunately, the ones that get packaged with Linux aren't that great:
Konsole

Terrible text wrapping support, no-reflow and newlines get inserted when you cut & paste

Slow
Gnome Terminal

Bad text wrapping support, no re-flow

Impossible to scroll back while output is being generated

Slow

On the Mac, the built-in terminal works great. But it lacks tabs, so I end up wasting a lot of time in Expose looking for the right window.
Mac OS X Terminal

Really nice split-pane for scrollback

Perfect text wrapping

True transprency

But no tabs!

Mac OS X only!

Fortunately, I've found the perfect terminal emulator. It's fast, it's simple, and it's very easy to install:
Terminator

Unique horizontal scrolling (ideal for SQL)

Fast

Great keyboard shortcuts

Unlimited scrollback is on by default

# posted by Jesse Wilson on Monday, January 15, 2007