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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.
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| Name | Type | Connectivity | User Interface | Operating System | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbsoluteTelnet | Character | SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, TAPI dialup, direct COM port | Windows | Commercial software terminal client for Windows | |
| Alacritty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based, Windows | Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator |
| AlphaCom | Character | Serial port, SSH, Telnet | Windows | ||
| CBterm/C64 | Character | Serial port | Commodore 64 | ||
| 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 | Free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1 - 9.4, developed by Accenture.[1] Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control a smartphone through fshell.[2][3] |
| 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 | |
| Kermit 95 | Character | Local, serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket, TAPI and direct dialup, named pipe, Pathworks32 LAT, CTERM[4] | Windows, IBM OS/2 | Formerly a commercial product[5] of Columbia University, now open-source[6] | |
| kitty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland, Quartz | Unix-based | 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 | ||
| PComm | Character | Serial port, Telnet ? | Windows | Free terminal emulator for Windows from Moxa, Inc. | |
| PuTTY | Character | Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket | Linux, macOS, ReactOS, Symbian S60,[7] Windows | 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, SSH, Telnet, 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 | SSH, Telnet | Linux, macOS, Windows | Commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows | |
| SyncTERM | Character | Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket | 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, SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, xmodem | Windows | Open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows | |
| Terminal | Character | Local | macOS | 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 | An open source terminal emulater that provides a Linux userland to Android | |
| Tilda | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | GTK drop-down terminal |
| Tilix | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | GTK3 tiling terminal emulator |
| TN3270 Plus | Block and character | tn3270, tn5250, Telnet | Windows | Terminal emulator for Windows | |
| Warp | Character | Local | Linux, macOS, Windows | Terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing | |
| Windows Console | Character | Local | Windows | Windows command line terminal | |
| Windows Terminal | Character | Local | Windows | Default terminal on Windows | |
| x3270 | Block | tn3270 | Linux, macOS, Windows | Multi-platform 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 | The standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS |
| ZOC | Character | Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, ISDN, TAPI | macOS, Windows, IBM OS/2 | Commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S | |
| ZTerm | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS, macOS | Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS |
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