xterm Alternatives and Similar Software

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GNOME Terminal

Open Source by The GNOME Project |
Linux

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on...

OS & Utilities gnome, terminal, terminal-emulator, bash, xterm
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Guake terminal

Open Source |
Linux

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or...

OS & Utilities terminal, console, terminal-emulator, quake-style
Yakuake

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Terminator

Open Source by Chris Jones |
Linux

Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the...

OS & Utilities terminal, terminal-client, multiple-terminals
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Terminal

Commercial by Apple Inc |
Mac

Terminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user...

OS & Utilities terminal, terminal-emulator
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Konsole

Open Source |
Linux

Terminal emulator originally developed for the KDE desktop environment.

OS & Utilities terminal, console
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tilda

Open Source by Tristan Sloughter, Ira Snyder |
Linux

Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the...

OS & Utilities terminal, console, terminal-emulator
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rxvt-unicode

Open Source |
Mac, Linux

Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system...

OS & Utilities terminal, console, terminal-emulator
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LXTerminal

Open Source by LXDE.org |
Linux

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency. LXTerminal supports multiple tabs. All...

OS & Utilities terminal, terminal-emulator, lxde
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iTerm

Open Source by iTerm Project |
Mac

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native apple look and...

OS & Utilities terminal, console
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Xfce-Terminal

Open Source by Xfce, Benedikt Meurer, Nick Schermer |
Linux

Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarily for the Xfce desktop environment. We developed it because we saw the need for a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator in...

OS & Utilities command-line, terminal, terminal-emulator, xfce, bash
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Sakura

Open Source by david@pleyades.net |
Linux

sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator. Current terminal...

OS & Utilities gtk, terminal-emulator, xterm, vte
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svte

Open Source |
Linux

svte is a terminal that is flexible and has a small codebase. Its aim is to be lightweight and fast, while providing nice integration with a modern Linux environment. svte is yet another minimal GTK...

OS & Utilities terminal, terminal-emulator
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MacTerm

Open Source |
Mac

MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications. Its many features include powerful terminals (with or without tabs), a...

Network & Admin ssh, shell, terminal, telnet
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LilyTerm

Free by Adrian Sampson |
Linux

LilyTerm: light, but functional terminal emulator LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3. Features: 1) Low resource-consumption --...

OS & Utilities lightweight, terminal, terminal-emulator
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evilvte

Open Source by evilvte |
Linux

VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

OS & Utilities terminal-emulator, xterm, vte
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ST - Simple Terminal

Open Source by suckless.org |
Linux

st is a simple terminal implementation for X. What is wrong with xterm ? xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here’s an excerpt from the README: Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here ...

OS & Utilities command-line, lightweight, console
+2 more terminal-emulator, terminal-client
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mrxvt

Open Source |
Linux

Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

OS & Utilities lightweight, terminal-emulator