This is a list of terminal emulators. Notable terminal emulators include Konsole on KDE, Gnome-terminal on GNOME, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm and rxvt-unicode.
Character-oriented terminal emulators
Linux
- Linux console - implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences
X Window terminals
Terminal emulators used in combination with the X Window System
- gnome-terminal - default terminal for GNOME
- guake - A dropdown terminal for GNOME
- konsole - default terminal for KDE
- rxvt
Forks:
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- rxvt-unicode - rxvt clone with unicode support
- aterm (Discontinued. Merged into rxvt-unicode)
- wterm (latest version: 2005-11-15)
- mrxvt - Multi-tabbed rxvt clone (latest version: 2008-09-10)
- eterm
- xfce4-terminal - default terminal for Xfce desktop environment with dropdown support
- Terminator
- Terminology - enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
- tilda - A drop down terminal
- xterm - default terminal for the X Window System
- Yakuake - (Yet Another Kuake), a dropdown terminal for KDE
Command-line interface
The following terminal emulators run inside of other terminals, utilizing libraries such as Curses and Termcap.
- GNU Screen - Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
- Minicom - text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems
- tmux - Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen
Microsoft Windows
- AbsoluteTelnet
- AlphaCom
- ConEmu
- HyperACCESS (commercial) / HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
- Indigo
- mintty - Cygwin terminal
- PuTTY
- RUMBA
- SecureCRT
- Tera Term
- TN3270 Plus
- TtyEmulator
- Win32 console - Windows command line terminal
- Xshell
- ZOC
macOS
- Terminal - default macOS terminal
- iTerm2 - open-source terminal specifically for macOS
- xterm - default terminal when X11.app starts
- MacWise
- SecureCRT
- SyncTERM - includes serial line terminal
- Terminator
- ZOC
- ZTerm - serial line terminal
Classic Mac OS
- MacTerminal
- Red Ryder
- ZTerm
Amiga
- NComm
MS-DOS
- Crosstalk
- ProComm
- Qmodem
- Telix
- Terminate
Commodore 8-bit machines
- CBterm/C64
Block-oriented terminal emulators
Emulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily IBM 3270, but also IBM 5250 and other non-IBM terminals.
Coax/Twinax connected
These terminal emulators are used to replace terminals attached to a host or terminal controller via a coaxial cable (coax) or twinaxial cabling (twinax). They require that the computer on which they run have a hardware adapter to support such an attachment.
- RUMBA 3270 and 5250
tn3270/tn5250
These terminal emulators connect to a host using the tn3270 or tn5250 protocols, which run over a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection.
- TN3270 Plus
- ZOC
See also
- Comparison of terminal emulators
- Web-based SSH
References
External links
- Linux console escape and control sequences
- List of X11 terminals available on Gentoo Linux
- List of X11 terminals available on archlinux
- Guide to Windows terminals
- The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators, 2004
- Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison, 2007
- x11-terminals
