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.

## List

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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 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, xmodem 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
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

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* Web-based SSH

## References

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1. ^ Goodwin, David (2024-10-28), davidrg/ckwin, retrieved 2024-10-29
2. ^ "C-Kermit Project".
3. ^ "fshell". SourceForge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
4. ^ "Muxcons". SourceForge. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
5. ^ "Introducing muxcons". www.qt.io. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
6. ^ Lima, Mr (2024-08-12), mrlima4095/OpenTTY-J2ME, retrieved 2024-08-12
7. ^ "PuTTY for Symbian OS". SourceForge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2024-08-12.

## External links

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* 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

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Terminal emulators (list)

* Alacritty
* ConEmu
* GNOME Terminal
* GNOME Terminator
* iTerm2
* kitty
* Konsole
* Red Ryder
* macOS Terminal
* mintty
* rxvt
* mrxvt
* Terminator
* Terminology
* Warp
* Windows Console
* Windows Terminal
* Xfce Terminal
* xterm

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* luit
* kmscon

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