These terminal emulators are used to replace terminals attached to a host or terminal controller via a coaxial cable (coax) or twinaxial cabling (twinax). Windows Console – Windows command line terminalīlock-oriented terminal emulators Įmulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily IBM 3270, but also IBM 5250 and other non-IBM terminals.HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later).ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash).xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts.iTerm2 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS.Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE.xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support.Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features.

Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker.

urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode.

mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in ).

Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment.

aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained).

rxvt – lightweight X11 terminal emulator.

kitty – GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input.

GNOME Terminal – default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support.

Alacritty – GPU accelerated, without tabs.

Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland:

tmux – Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen.

Minicom – text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems.

GNU Screen – Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation.

The following terminal emulators run inside of other terminals, utilizing libraries such as Curses and Termcap:

Linux console – implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences.

Main article: Character-oriented terminal Unix-like Command-line interface

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