List of terminal emulators
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.
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 escape sequences.
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 GNOME with native Wayland support
- guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME
- 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- aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)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 Enlightenment
- 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
- Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features
- Terminology[1] – enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
- Tilda – a drop-down terminal
- 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 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS
- MacWise
- SecureCRT
- Terminal – default macOS terminal
- Terminator
- xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts
- ZOC
- ZTerm – serial line terminal
Apple Classic Mac OS[]
Android[]
Microsoft Windows[]
- AbsoluteTelnet
- Alacritty
- AlphaCom
- ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
- HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
- Kermit 95
- mintty – Cygwin terminal
- Procomm Plus
- PuTTY
- Qmodem Pro
- RUMBA
- SecureCRT
- Tera Term
- TtyEmulator
- Windows Console – Windows command line terminal
- Windows Terminal
- ZOC
Microsoft MS-DOS[]
IBM OS/2[]
- Kermit 95
- ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2
Commodore Amiga[]
Commodore 64[]
- 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.
- c3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for running inside a vt100/curses emulator for most Unix-like systems[2]
- Eicon Aviva
- IBM Personal Communications
- Rocket BlueZone
- TN3270 Plus
- Tn5250j
- x3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for X11 and most Unix-like systems[2]
- ZOC
See also[]
References[]
External links[]
- Terminal emulators
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