Coolterm

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.

CoolTerm is a simple serial-port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc. CoolTerm now opens a progress window whenever the length of the text to be transmitted exceeds a certain threshold, and not only when text files are sent. Flow control settings are now displayed in the terminal window as part of the port configuration string. CoolTerm – a software to exchange data with devices connected to the serial ports. The software uses a terminal to send messages to the devices such as GPS receivers, servo controllers or robotic kits that are connected to the computer via serial ports, and then sends a response to the user request.

Plan 9-inspired terminal for OS X. Contribute to alltom/coolterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Character-oriented terminal emulators[edit]

Unix-like[edit]

Command-line interface[edit]

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

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

Graphical[edit]

X11 and Wayland[edit]

Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland

• xterm – standard terminal for X11
• Alacritty – GPU accelerated, without tabs
• kitty – GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input
• GNOME Terminal – default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support
• guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME
• konsole – default terminal for KDE
• xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
• Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features
• Terminology^[1] – enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
• Tilda – a drop-down terminal
• Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE
• rxvt – lightweight X11 terminal emulator

• 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

macOS[edit]

Terminal emulators used on macOS

• Terminal – default macOS terminal
• iTerm2 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS
• xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts
• ZTerm – serial line terminal

Apple Classic Mac OS[edit]

Microsoft Windows[edit]

• ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
• HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
• mintty – Cygwin terminal
• Windows Console – Windows command line terminal

Microsoft MS-DOS[edit]

• Qmodem and Qmodem Pro

IBM OS/2[edit]

• ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2

Commodore Amiga[edit]

Commodore 64[edit]

Block-oriented terminal emulators[edit]

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

Coax/Twinax connected[edit]

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[edit]

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

• Eicon Aviva
• x3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for X11 and most Unix-like systems^[2]
• Tn5250j
• Rocket BlueZone
• IBM Personal Communications
• c3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for running inside a vt100/curses emulator for most Unix-like systems^[2]

See also[edit]

Coolterm Commands

References[edit]

1. ^Schroder, Carla (November 16, 2017). '5 Coolest Linux Terminal Emulators'. Linux.com.
2. ^ ^ab'x3270'.

Coolterm Ubuntu

External links[edit]

Coolterm Linux

• The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators, 2004
• Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison, 2007