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
Name Type Connectivity User Interface Operating System Description
AbsoluteTelnet Character Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port Windows
Alacritty Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based, Windows lightweight, GPU accelerated X11 terminal emulator
AlphaCom Character Telnet, SSH, and RS-232/modem Windows
CBterm/C64 Character Serial port Commodore 64
ConEmu Character Local Windows local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
Crosstalk Character Serial port MS-DOS
Cygwin terminal Character Local Windows
Eicon Aviva Character, block tn3270, tn5250, Telnet, SSH, SNA Windows 3270 emulator, 5250 emulator
foot Character Local Wayland Unix-based A fast, lightweight, and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
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 Character Serial port MS-DOS
Kermit 95 Character Serial port Windows, IBM OS/2
kitty Character Local X11, Wayland, Quartz Unix-based, macOS 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, interactive unicode character input
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
NComm Character Serial port Amiga
ProComm Character Serial port MS-DOS
Procomm Plus Character Serial port Windows
PuTTY Character Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux
Qmodem Pro Character Serial port Windows
Red Ryder Character Serial port Classic Mac OS
RUMBA Character, block Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA Windows Did older versions support coax/twinax?
rxvt Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based
  • aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)
  • Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment
  • mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10)
  • urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode
  • Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker
SecureCRT Character Telnet, SSH macOS, Windows
Synchronet Character Serial port MS-DOS
Telix Character Serial port MS-DOS
Tera Term Character Serial port, Telnet, and SSH 1 & 2 Windows
Terminal Character Local macOS default macOS terminal
Terminate Character Serial port MS-DOS
Terminator Character X11, Wayland Unix-based written in Java with many novel or experimental features
Termux Character Local Android
Tilda Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based a drop-down terminal
Tilix Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
tn5250 Block tn5250 ? 5250 emulator
TN3270 Plus Block tn3270 Windows
Tn5250j Block tn5250 ?
TtyEmulator Character Serial line, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw TCP Windows
Windows Console Character Local Windows Windows command line terminal
Windows Terminal Character Local Windows
x3270 Block tn3270 Multi-platform open-source
xfce4-terminal Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
xterm Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS
Yakuake Character Local X11, Wayland Unix-based (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE
ZOC Character Serial port, Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, ISDN, TAPI, Rlogin Windows, IBM OS/2, macOS
ZTerm Character Serial line macOS, Classic Mac OS serial line terminal

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