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
[edit]| Name | Type | Connectivity | User Interface | Operating System | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbsoluteTelnet | Character | Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port | Windows | AbsoluteTelnet is a commercial software terminal client for Windows | |
| Alacritty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based, Windows | Lightweight, GPU accelerated X11 terminal emulator |
| AlphaCom | Character | Telnet, SSH, and RS-232/modem | Windows | ||
| CBterm/C64 | Character | Serial port | Commodore 64 | ||
| C-Kermit for Windows and OS/2 | Character | SSH, Telnet, rlogin, Local, raw socket connection, Serial port, TAPI and direct Dialup, Named Pipe, Pathworks32 LAT and CTERM[1] | Windows, IBM OS/2 | Formerly Kermit 95,[2] successor of the Columbia.edu Kermit Project. | |
| ConEmu | Character | Local | Windows | Local terminal window that can host console application either for WinAPI or Unix PTY | |
| fshell | Character | Local, Telnet | Avkon, Qt | Symbian S60 | fshell is a free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1-9.4, developed by Accenture.[3] Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control smartphone throw fshell.[4][5] |
| GNOME Terminal | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support |
| guake | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Drop-down terminal for GNOME |
| HyperACCESS | Character | Serial port | Windows | ||
| HyperTerminal | Character | Serial port | Windows XP or earlier | ||
| IBM Personal Communications | Block | tn3270, tn5250 | Windows | 3270 emulator, 5250 emulator | |
| iTerm2 | Character | Local | macOS | Open-source terminal specifically for macOS | |
| kitty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland, Quartz | Unix-based, macOS | GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input |
| konsole | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Default terminal for KDE. GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing |
| Linux console | Character | Local | CLI | Linux | Implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences |
| MacTerminal | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS | ||
| MacWise | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS, macOS | ||
| mintty | Character | Local | Windows | Used for Cygwin, MSYS2, as well as the Windows port of Git | |
| NComm | Character | Serial port | Amiga | ||
| OpenTTY | Character | Local | LCDUI | J2ME | OpenTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator for feature phones and smartphones with J2ME support.[6] |
| PComm | Character | Serial port, Telnet ? | Windows | Moxa Inc free terminal emulator for Windows | |
| PuTTY | Character | Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection | Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux, Symbian S60[7] | PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and file transfer application. | |
| Qmodem Pro | Character | Serial port | Windows | Terminal emulator for MS-DOS and WIndows 95 (discontinued since 1997) | |
| Red Ryder | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS | Terminal emulator for Macintosh (discontinued since 1989) | |
| RUMBA | Character, block | Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA | Windows | Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe) | |
| rxvt | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows |
| SecureCRT | Character | Telnet, SSH | macOS, Windows | SecureCRT is a commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows | |
| SyncTERM | Character | raw TCP socket, rlogin, SSH, Serial port, Telnet | CLI (curses), SDL, X11 | Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows | Terminal program for Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD |
| Telix | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1997) | |
| Tera Term | Character | Serial port, Telnet, and SSH 1 & 2 | Windows | Tera Term is an open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows | |
| Terminal | Character | Local | macOS | This is the default terminal application on macOS | |
| Terminate | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992) | |
| Terminator | Character | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Written in Java with many novel or experimental features | |
| Termux | Character | Local | Android | ||
| Tilda | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | A GTK drop-down terminal |
| Tilix | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | GTK3 tiling terminal emulator |
| TN3270 Plus | Block and character | tn3270, tn5250,Telnet | Windows | TN3270-Plus is a terminal emulator for Windows | |
| Warp | Character | Local | Linux, macOS | terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing | |
| WezTerm | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based, Windows | terminal emulator implemented in Rust |
| Windows Console | Character | Local | Windows | Windows command line terminal | |
| Windows Terminal | Character | Local | Windows | Default terminal on Windows | |
| x3270 | Block | tn3270 | Multi-platform | x3270 is an open-source terminal emulator available for macOS, Linux and Windows | |
| xfce4-terminal | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | Default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support |
| xterm | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | xterm is the standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS |
| Yakuake | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE |
| ZOC | Character | Serial port, Telnet, SSH, ISDN, TAPI, Rlogin | Windows, IBM OS/2, macOS | ZOC is a commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S | |
| ZTerm | Character | Serial line | macOS, Classic Mac OS | ZTerm is a shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Goodwin, David (2024-10-28), davidrg/ckwin, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ "C-Kermit Project".
- ^ "fshell". SourceForge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Muxcons". SourceForge. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Introducing muxcons". www.qt.io. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ Lima, Mr (2024-08-12), mrlima4095/OpenTTY-J2ME, retrieved 2024-08-12
- ^ "PuTTY for Symbian OS". SourceForge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
External links
[edit]- 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 Archived 2017-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
- The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators, 2004
- Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison, 2007
- x11-terminals