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.

Character-oriented terminal emulators

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

Terminal emulators used in combination with the X Window System

aterm - AfterStep terminal with transparency support
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gnome-terminal - default terminal for GNOME
guake - A dropdown terminal for GNOME
konsole - default terminal for KDE
Kuake - a dropdown terminal for KDE
mrxvt - Multi-tabbed rxvt clone
rxvt
rxvt-unicode - rxvt clone with unicode support
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
wterm
xterm - default terminal for the X Window System
Yakuake - (Yet Another Kuake), a dropdown terminal for KDE

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
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

AbsoluteTelnet
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
Terminator
TN3270 Plus
TtyEmulator
Win32 console - Windows command line terminal
ZOC

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

Terminal emulator List/Comparison

List	aterm GNOME Terminal guake Konsole Kuake mrxvt OS X Terminal rxvt Rxvt-unicode Terminator Tilda Wterm Xfce Terminal Terminology xterm Yakuake

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