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

Name  | Type  | Connectivity  | User Interface  | Operating System  | Description

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AbsoluteTelnet | Character | Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port |  | 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 |
ConEmu | Character | Local  |  | Windows | local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
Crosstalk | Character | Serial port |  | MS-DOS |
Cygwin terminal  | Character | Local  |  | Windows |
Eicon Aviva  | Character, block | tn3270, tn5250, Telnet, SSH, SNA |  | Windows | 3270 emulator, 5250 emulator
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 | Character | Serial port |  | MS-DOS |
Kermit 95  | Character | Serial port |  | Windows, IBM OS/2  |
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, interactive unicode character input
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 |
NComm | Character | Serial port |  | Amiga |
ProComm  | Character | Serial port |  | MS-DOS |
Procomm Plus  | Character | Serial port |  | Windows |
PuTTY | Character | Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection |  | Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux |
Qmodem Pro  | Character | Serial port |  | Windows |
Red Ryder | Character | Serial port |  | Classic Mac OS |
RUMBA  | Character, block | Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA |  | Windows | Did older versions support coax/twinax?
rxvt | Character | Local  | X11, Wayland | Unix-based  |

* 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

SecureCRT | Character | Telnet, SSH |  | macOS, Windows |
SyncTERM | Character | raw TCP socket, rlogin, SSH, Serial port, Telnet | CLI (curses), SDL, X11  | Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows |
Telix | Character | Serial port |  | MS-DOS |
Tera Term | Character | Serial port, Telnet, and SSH 1 & 2  |  | Windows |
Terminal | Character | Local  |  | macOS | default macOS terminal
Terminate | Character | Serial port |  | MS-DOS |
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 drop-down terminal
Tilix  | Character | Local  | X11, Wayland | Unix-based  | GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
tn5250  | Block | tn5250  |  | ?  | 5250 emulator
TN3270 Plus | Block | tn3270  |  | Windows  |
Tn5250j  | Block | tn5250  |  | ?  |
TtyEmulator  | Character | Serial line, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw TCP |  | Windows |
Warp | Character | Local  |  | macOS | terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing
Windows Console | Character | Local  |  | Windows | Windows command line terminal
Windows Terminal | Character | Local  |  | Windows |
x3270  | Block | tn3270  |  | Multi-platform | open-source
xfce4-terminal  | Character | Local  | X11, Wayland | Unix-based  | default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
xterm | Character | Local  | X11, Wayland | Unix-based  | 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 1 and 2, ISDN, TAPI, Rlogin  |  | Windows, IBM OS/2, macOS |
ZTerm | Character | Serial line  |  | macOS, Classic Mac OS | serial line terminal

## See also

* Web-based SSH

## 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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Terminal emulators

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* ConEmu
* iTerm2
* GNOME Terminal
* guake
* Konsole
* macOS Terminal
* mintty
* mrxvt
* rxvt
* Terminator
* Tilda
* Xfce Terminal
* Terminology
* Windows Console
* Windows Terminal
* xterm
* Yakuake

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* luit
* kmscon

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