List of terminal emulators

This is a list of terminal emulators. Notable terminal emulators include Konsole on KDE, Gnome-terminal on GNOME, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm and rxvt-unicode.

Contents

• 1 Character-oriented terminal emulators
  • 1.1 Linux
  • 1.2 X Window terminals
  • 1.3 Command-line interface
  • 1.4 Microsoft Windows
  • 1.5 macOS
  • 1.6 Classic Mac OS
  • 1.7 Amiga
  • 1.8 MS-DOS
  • 1.9 Commodore 8-bit machines
• 2 Block-oriented terminal emulators
  • 2.1 Coax/Twinax connected
  • 2.2 tn3270/tn5250
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Character-oriented terminal emulators

Main article: Character-oriented terminal

Linux

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

X Window terminals

Terminal emulators used in combination with the X Window System

• gnome-terminal - default terminal for GNOME
• guake - A dropdown terminal for GNOME
• konsole - default terminal for KDE
• rxvt

Forks:

• rxvt-unicode - rxvt clone with unicode support
• aterm (Discontinued. Merged into rxvt-unicode)
• wterm (latest version: 2005-11-15)
• mrxvt - Multi-tabbed rxvt clone (latest version: 2008-09-10)
• eterm^[1]

• xfce4-terminal - default terminal for Xfce desktop environment with dropdown support
• Terminator
• Terminology - enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
• tilda - A drop down terminal
• xterm - default terminal for X11
• Yakuake - (Yet Another Kuake), a dropdown terminal for KDE
• x3270 - IBM 3270 emulator for X11 and most Unix-like systems^[2]

Command-line interface

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

• GNU Screen - Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
• Minicom - text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen
• c3270 - IBM 3270 emulator for running inside a vt100/curses emulator for most Unix-like systems^[2]

Microsoft Windows

• AbsoluteTelnet
• AlphaCom
• ConEmu
• HyperACCESS (commercial) / HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
• Indigo
• mintty - Cygwin terminal
• PuTTY
• RUMBA
• SecureCRT
• Tera Term
• TN3270 Plus
• TtyEmulator
• Win32 console - Windows command line terminal
• Xshell
• ZOC

macOS

• Terminal - default macOS terminal
• iTerm2 - open-source terminal specifically for macOS
• xterm - default terminal when X11.app starts
• MacWise
• SecureCRT
• SyncTERM - includes serial line terminal
• Terminator
• ZOC
• ZTerm - serial line terminal

Classic Mac OS

• MacTerminal
• Red Ryder
• ZTerm

Amiga

• NComm

MS-DOS

• Crosstalk
• ProComm
• Qmodem
• Telix
• Terminate

Commodore 8-bit machines

• CBterm/C64

Block-oriented terminal emulators

Emulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily IBM 3270, but also IBM 5250 and other non-IBM terminals.

Coax/Twinax connected

These terminal emulators are used to replace terminals attached to a host or terminal controller via a coaxial cable (coax) or twinaxial cabling (twinax). They require that the computer on which they run have a hardware adapter to support such an attachment.

• RUMBA 3270 and 5250

tn3270/tn5250

These terminal emulators connect to a host using the tn3270 or tn5250 protocols, which run over a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection.

• TN3270 Plus
• ZOC