List of terminal emulators
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This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.
List
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|+ !Name !Type !Connectivity !User Interface !Operating System !Description |
AbsoluteTelnet
|SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, TAPI dialup, direct COM port | |Commercial software terminal client for Windows |
Alacritty
|Local |Unix-based, Windows |Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator |
AlphaCom
|Serial port, SSH, Telnet | | |
CBterm/C64
| | |
ConEmu
|Local | |Local terminal window that can host console application either for WinAPI or Unix PTY |
fshell
|Local, Telnet |Free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1 - 9.4, developed by Accenture.{{Cite web |date=2018-01-22 |title=fshell |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/fshell/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}} Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control a smartphone through fshell.{{Cite web |date=2013-05-16 |title=Muxcons |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/muxcons/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Introducing muxcons |url=https://www.qt.io/blog/2011/04/15/introducing-muxcons |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.qt.io |language=en}} |
GNOME Terminal
|Local |Unix-based |
guake
|Local |Unix-based |Drop-down terminal for GNOME |
HyperACCESS
| | |
HyperTerminal
| |Windows XP or earlier | |
IBM Personal Communications
| |
iTerm2
|Local | |Open-source terminal specifically for macOS |
Kermit 95
|Local, serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket, TAPI and direct dialup, named pipe, Pathworks32 LAT, CTERM{{Citation |last=Goodwin |first=David |title=davidrg/ckwin |date=2024-10-28 |url=https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin/ |access-date=2024-10-29}} | |Formerly a commercial product{{cite web |title=C-Kermit Project |url=https://www.kermitproject.org/k95.html}} of Columbia University, now open-source{{Citation |last=Goodwin |first=David |title=davidrg/ckwin |date=2025-01-27 |url=https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin |access-date=2025-01-27}} |
kitty
|Local |Unix-based |GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input |
konsole
|Local |Unix-based |Default terminal for KDE. GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing |
Linux console
|Local |CLI |Implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences |
MacTerminal
| | |
MacWise
| | |
mintty
|Local | | Used for Cygwin, MSYS2, as well as the Windows port of Git |
NComm
| | |
PComm
|Serial port, Telnet ? | |Free terminal emulator for Windows from Moxa, Inc. |
PuTTY
|Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket | |Linux, macOS, ReactOS, Symbian S60,{{Cite web |date=2018-01-22 |title=PuTTY for Symbian OS |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/s2putty/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}} Windows |Free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console, and file transfer application |
Qmodem Pro
| |Terminal emulator for MS-DOS and WIndows 95 (discontinued since 1997) |
Red Ryder
| |Terminal emulator for Macintosh (discontinued since 1989) |
RUMBA
|Serial port, SSH, Telnet, tn3270, tn5250, SNA | |Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe) |
rxvt
|Local |Unix-based |Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows |
SecureCRT
| |Commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows |
SyncTERM
|Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket |Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows |Terminal program for Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD |
Telix
| |Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1997) |
Tera Term
|Serial port, SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, xmodem | |Open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows |
Terminal
|Local | |The default terminal application on macOS |
Terminate
| |Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992) |
Terminator
| |Unix-based |Written in Java with many novel or experimental features |
Termux
|Local | |An open source terminal emulater that provides a Linux userland to Android |
Tilda
|Local |Unix-based |GTK drop-down terminal |
Tilix
|Local |Unix-based |GTK3 tiling terminal emulator |
TN3270 Plus
| |Terminal emulator for Windows |
Warp
|Local | |Terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing |
Windows Console
|Local | |Windows command line terminal |
Windows Terminal
|Local | |Default terminal on Windows |
x3270
| |Multi-platform open-source terminal emulator available for macOS, Linux and Windows |
xfce4-terminal
|Local |Unix-based |Default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support |
xterm
|Local |Unix-based |The standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS |
ZOC
|Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, ISDN, TAPI | |Commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S |
ZTerm
| |Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS |
See also
References
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External links
- [http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console_codes.4.html Linux console escape and control sequences]
- [http://packages.gentoo.org/category/x11-terms?full_cat List of X11 terminals available on Gentoo Linux]
- [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_Applications#Terminal_emulators List of X11 terminals available on archlinux]
- [http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-telnet-ssh-terminal-emulator Guide to Windows terminals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602081020/http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-telnet-ssh-terminal-emulator |date=2017-06-02 }}
- [https://lwn.net/Articles/88161/ The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators], 2004
- [http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/09/01/comprehensive-linux-terminal-performance-comparison/ Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison], 2007
- [http://linuxreviews.org/software/x11-terms/ x11-terminals]
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