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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

With the Gnome terminal you can do thousands of tasks thanks to the fact that it is compatible with all Unix commands. Being a GUI terminal maintains compatibility with graphic applications. Unlike other TTY's, it allows you to run applications based on GNU Courses and use the mouse to interact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

The learning curve is quite high, since you have to know the large number of commands available to work with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

The Gnome terminal is more powerful than other terminals such as Xterm, since the integration with GUI applications is much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use the Gnome terminal usually in Linux operating systems where I have a Gnome compatible distribution, usually Ubuntu. It allows me to work in a more efficient and productive way than with the mouse only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is GNOME Terminal?

Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system.

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Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system.


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Recent GNOME Terminal Reviews

Mubassir R.
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4.5 out of 5
"It is a terminal emulator"
Custom commands and shell. Select individual words and letters.
Saksham S.
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4.5 out of 5
"A perfect terminal"
Gnome terminal is just a perfect terminal for all gnome-based desktop environments. I am a user of the Ubuntu desktop and the gnome-terminal comes ...
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5.0 out of 5
"GNOME Terminal"
GNOME Terminal have a lot of features, multi-tab, you can change the TAB title, read-only Terminal, Zoom, search, and lot of other features
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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

Custom commands and shell. Select individual words and letters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

Complex and very technical in nature. lots of custamization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

User-Friendly Interface. Tabs and Multiple Profiles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

Gnome terminal is just a perfect terminal for all gnome-based desktop environments. I am a user of the Ubuntu desktop and the gnome-terminal comes pre-installed with it and it fulfills all needs of a Linux user. It has many great features like multi-tab, terminal zoom, theming, and native copy paste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

As I mentioned, I am a regular user of Gnome Terminal so I don't feel any drawbacks in using it. It is lightweight, works out of the box, and is very snappy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

You can try out the FISH shell. It is a perfect combination with the GNOME terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use gnome-terminal for regular computing needs, updating, installing software, basic scripting tasks, automation, navigation and deployment in Linux machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

GNOME Terminal have a lot of features, multi-tab, you can change the TAB title, read-only Terminal, Zoom, search, and lot of other features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

i use GNOME Terminal daily on my task, nothing dislike, but I will love it more and more if add a new feature for SSH session management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

every i connect to my server via ssh using GNOME Terminal, also use it with aws-cli, vim, sysadmin daily tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

Imagine being able to quickly and easily take control of every single thing that goes on under the shiny surface of your Linux distro, then imagine that you can also utilise the same tools remotely from your machine.

Terminal offers quick and accurate results for all commands you’d ever wish to use, and when implemented into bash scripts, allow you to repeat and even batch tasks too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

As with the first time you ever used the Linux Window Manager (GUI), there’s going to be a learning curve, but as this is Linux we are talking about, help is always only a google away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

Pull up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Trust me, it’s worth it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Don’t be shy to get your hands dirty, you’ll never regret being able to use the terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

I have saved a lot of work with the options that it offers me since not in every terminal I can do shortcuts like renaming several files almost at the same time and being able to copy and paste in the terminal, this saves us a lot of having to write sentences of characters for navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

The idea of trying to look like IOs is a bit limited since there are points where it can be improved since it would be better if we could move the incidentals of the system tray to where we want, since for some it is a little uncomfortable and The taskbar is missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

As for linux terminals I think that this is one of the best adapts to new users and if you have enough experience it will be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

It seems to me that the personalized options provided by the terminal interface allow us to adjust it according to the needs we have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

This is the better Terminal app for linux and i really like that it comes default with ubuntu. And it has enough good customisation for a terminal, like changing fonts, backgrounds and making the background transparent And I really like the fact that i can add my customisation into different profile and switch to any profile when i want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

They should have added a option to set an image as its background. And as Terminal Its all other functions are working fine. And there is nothing else that i dislike about Gnome Terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

If you want a good looking terminal with availability of customisation with different profiles. then you can trust gnome-terminal. From my experience all the other terminal software that i used , i always come back for gnome-terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Gnome Terminal on ubuntu and it comes default ,pre-installed with it. and even if it is other lInux distro we still installed gnome-terminal on all computers. And we used gnome-terminal to update, upgrade and install new software to PC.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator specially designed for the GNOME desktop environment. This allows the users of GNOME machine to access the shells while remaining on the graphical desktop. The main advantage and attractive part of the GNOME terminal are that it supports multiple profiles each have its own theme. A user can create multiple profiles with their customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

The most annoying part of the GNOME terminal is that it requires commands to interact with. That means it does not have a graphical interface. We need to have some pre ideas to interact with the terminal. Commands can be acts as instructions to perform tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

Right now GNOME terminal comes with command line utilities. If it supports GUI features it becomes more easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly GNOME terminal does not affect any malware or virus attacks. So we can easily keep our files in GNOME terminal machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

The Gnome terminal is perfect for executing all types of Unix commands from any graphical environment, since it is compatible with non-Gnome environments.

Allows you to configure a profile file to define all the customizations you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

The negative part of the gnome terminal is that you can not store information for the last session, that is, it does not remember the paths or orders executed in each terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

The Gnome terminal is perfect for working in Linux environments, since all available commands can be executed. It also lets you work with tabs and split the screen to increase the productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use the Gnome terminal to execute all types of commands, such as connecting to the servers, copying or manipulating files, as well as executing applications and reading the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

Its actually a great terminal emulators which allow users to access a UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

I hope that the Product Engineer will release an update which allows GNOME Terminal to run on MacOS. Can't really find any alternative that is as good as GNOME Terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

If you work with your keyboard rather than using mice or touch-ipnput, then I recommend using GNOME with its excellent CLI and innovative customization options.

While it has some limitations in terms of mouse usage, it should be efficient enought to suite your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allowed me to accurately emulate the UNIX Terminal and run apps that uses VT102, VT220, and xterm terminals.

Also, the personalization options such as keyboard shortcut is one of the main selling points for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GNOME Terminal?

The best thing I like in gnome terminal is its simplicity and stability. I'm a developer, and gnome-terminal is enough for compile source codes, navigate through folders and SSH connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNOME Terminal?

I just think it could be better in user experience. I prefer terminator's user experience, as it allows the user to split the screen into several smaller screens (without need to change tabs). I think gnome-terminal should implement this "split-screen" feature as well. Another great feature that could be implemented is "fish" like autocomplete. Fish shows autocomplete when you are typing, allowing you to just press the right keyboard arrow to autocomplete the command. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GNOME Terminal:

If you are a dynamic developer, there could be other better options (fish and terminator). But, if you are a normal user, this is the best option for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GNOME Terminal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compile and run source codes (c++, java, python), SSH access and navigate though folders. It is more like a terminal for regular linux users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.