GNOME Terminal
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| GNOME Terminal | |
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 Screenshot of the Gnome terminal |
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| Developed by | GNOME developers |
| Latest release | 2.22.1 / 7 April 2008 |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Genre | Terminal Emulator |
| License | GPL |
| Website | directory.fsf.org/gnome-terminal |
GNOME terminal, also identified as gnome-terminal, is a terminal emulator written by Havoc Pennington and others. It is part of the free software GNOME desktop environment software suite. This allows users of GNOME to execute commands using a real UNIX shell whilst still remaining on their graphical desktop. Along with this comes the benefits of being able to move the window, resize it and shift it to another desktop, just like any other window in GNOME.
GNOME Terminal is similar to the xterm terminal emulator, and has a nearly identical feature set. Some of the more important features of the two include their support for coloured text (the output of a command such as ls --color=auto shows the use of this feature well), and support for mouse events within the window. Mouse events are commonly used within ncurses based applications for using menus or buttons that normally would have been selected using the keyboard. The application aptitude makes use of this feature. GNOME Terminal emulates many, but not all, of the escape sequences supported by xterm,[1] and provides a useful subset of the VT102 DEC terminal. Newer versions support compositing and real transparency, as well as multiple tabs. When running in the GNOME desktop environment, which provides an intermediate server, it supports URL detection (i.e., making links visible in the terminal clickable, and thus simpler to open in a web browser, ftp- or mail client than via copy-pasting).[2]
Much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget.[3]
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- ^ Thomas E. Dickey. XTERM - Frequently Asked Questions.
- ^ URL detection is also a feature of other desktop applications, e.g., Konsole.
- ^ Additional Widgets - Terminal Widget (2003-10-18). Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
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