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CLUSTER EMULATOR-TERMINAL-WAYLAND · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-07-21

Wayland terminal emulators

This cluster consists of terminal emulators and related CLI utilities for Wayland on Linux, including drop-down variants, a Rust-based clipboard replacement, and feature-focused emulators with Unicode, low memory, or persistent session support. Dated entries before the index start occur sporadically from June 2019 to July 2026, with gaps of a year or more, so no clear growth trend is visible. The highest activity signals among members are all at zero stars (splinterm, monstar, tintty), indicating limited current traction.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2019: 1JUL 2020: 1OCT 2024: 1DEC 2024: 1MAR 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 2
JUN 2019OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 13 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ftty-bin0★22 daysliveopen sourceTerminal emulator for Wayland that provides command-line sessions and supports native graphical output.
  2. 02veil-host-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceNested Wayland compositor that lets users run and display graphical desktop applications inside a terminal window.
  3. 03foot-tabs0★11 daysliveopen sourceTerminal emulator for Wayland that provides a tabbed interface for managing multiple terminal sessions.
  4. 04neferbar-bin0★6 daysliveopen sourceScript-driven status bar for Wayland that displays system information in a one-cell-high terminal-style strip.
  5. 05monstar0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal emulator for Linux that provides a native Wayland front end for running command-line shells and terminal applications.
  6. 06splinterm0★1 moliveopen sourceWayland terminal emulator that supports persistent sessions and automation.
  7. 07tintty0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal emulator for Wayland that displays full Unicode characters with low memory usage.
  8. 08gwmct0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSimple terminal emulator for Wayland and X desktops.
  9. 09foot0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceProvides a fast, lightweight Wayland terminal emulator with font fallback, DPI adjustment, scrollback search, and image support.
  10. 10tilda-wayland0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDrop-down terminal emulator for Linux and Unix that provides a workaround for Wayland.
  11. 11yakuake-wayland-fixes0★7 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDrop-down terminal application for Linux desktops that adds Wayland compatibility fixes, performance toggles, and window security hardening.
  12. 12wl-clipboard-rs0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line copy-paste utilities for Wayland implemented in Rust, offering a safe alternative for terminal use.
  13. 13havoc0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceProvides a minimal terminal emulator for Wayland on Linux.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.