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 | 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[citation needed] | 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/2
ZTerm | Character | Serial port |  | Classic Mac OS, macOS | Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS

## See also

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* Web-based SSH

## References

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1. ^ "fshell". SourceForge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
2. ^ "Muxcons". SourceForge. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
3. ^ "Introducing muxcons". www.qt.io. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
4. ^ Goodwin, David (2024-10-28), davidrg/ckwin, retrieved 2024-10-29
5. ^ "C-Kermit Project".
6. ^ Goodwin, David (2025-01-27), davidrg/ckwin, retrieved 2025-01-27
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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