This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on

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and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.

Character-oriented terminal emulators

Unix-like

Command-line interface

* Linux console – implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64

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. 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

Graphical

=X11 and Wayland

= Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland: * Alacritty – GPU accelerated, without tabs * GNOME Terminal – default terminal for

with native Wayland support *

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–

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* kitty – GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input * konsole – default terminal for KDE * rxvt – lightweight X11 terminal emulator :* aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained) :* Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with

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:* mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10) :* urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode :* Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker *

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– written in Java with many novel or experimental features * Tilda – a

* Tilix – GTK3 tiling terminal emulator * xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support * xterm – standard terminal for X11 * Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE

= macOS

= Terminal emulators used on macOS *

iTerm2 iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for macOS, licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later. It was derived from and has mostly supplanted the earlier "iTerm" application. iTerm2 supports operating system features such as window transparency, full-screen mode, s ...

– open-source terminal specifically for macOS * kitty – GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input * MacWise * SecureCRT * Terminal – default macOS terminal * xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts * ZOC * ZTerm – serial line terminal

Apple Classic Mac OS

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* Red Ryder * ZTerm

Android

* Termux

Microsoft Windows

* AbsoluteTelnet * Alacritty *

AlphaCom AlphaCom is a commercial SSH, Telnet and RS-232/modem client and terminal emulator by OmniCom Technologies. It is a Windows product but has been known to also run on Linux via emulation. History AlphaCom is a GUI-based RS-232/modem, Telnet and S ...

ConEmu ConEmu (short for ''Console emulator'') is a free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows. ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with tabs and a status bar. It also provides emu ...

– local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash) *

HyperACCESS HyperACCESS (sometimes known as HyperTerminal) is a family of terminal emulation software by Hilgraeve. A version of HyperACCESS called HyperTerminal is included in some versions of Windows. History It was the first software product from Hilgr ...

(commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later) *

Kermit 95 Kermit is a computer file transfer/management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, scrip ...

* mintty –

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terminal * Procomm Plus *

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* Qmodem Pro * RUMBA * SecureCRT *

Tera Term Tera Term (alternatively TeraTerm) is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of computer terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. It supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial p ...

* TtyEmulator * Windows Console – Windows command line terminal * Windows Terminal * ZOC

MS-DOS

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* Kermit * ProComm *

Qmodem Qmodem was an MS-DOS shareware telecommunications program and terminal emulator. Qmodem was widely used to access bulletin boards in the 1980s and was well respected in the Bulletin Board System community. Qmodem was also known as Qmodem SST and ...

and Qmodem Pro *

Synchronet Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2, but support for those platforms were dropped in version 3.0 (circa 2000). History S ...

Telix Telix is a telecommunications program originally written for DOS by Colin Sampaleanu and released in 1986. On October 10, 1988 in the release note for Telix 3.10, Sampaleanu announced the creation of 'Exis Inc.'; name used to develop the software ...

* Terminate

IBM OS/2

* ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2

Amiga

* NComm

Commodore 64

CBterm/C64 CBterm/C64, commonly referred to as CBterm, is a terminal emulator for the Commodore 64, authored by Christopher "Chrisdos" Dunn. CBterm bears a copyright date of 1985; version 5.0 of the software was released in early 1987 and is coded entirely ...

Block-oriented terminal emulators

Emulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily

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, 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

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(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. * Eicon Aviva * IBM Personal Communications * Rocket BlueZone * TN3270 Plus * Tn5250j * x3270 – open-source, multi-platform, TN3270 client * ZOC

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
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