GtkTerm Alternatives

GtkTerm is described as 'Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port. It is has fewer features than minicom, but is designed to be as easy to use as possible' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GtkTerm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Cygwin. The best alternative is YAT - Yet Another Terminal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GtkTerm are dterm (terminal emulator), Minicom, RealTerm and HTerm.

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GtkTerm

Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux

Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port. It is has fewer features than minicom, but is...

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YAT - Yet Another Terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
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Engineering, testing and debugging of serial communication. Supports RS-232/422/423/485 as well as TCP/IP Client/Server/AutoSocket, UDP/IP Client/Server/PairSocket and USB Ser/HID. Optimized for simple command sets of e.g. embedded systems.
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1. LightweightYAT - Yet Another Terminal consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Define your own "send strings"
Configurable inter-character delay
Timestamps
dterm (terminal emulator)
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
13 alternatives to dterm (terminal emulator)
dterm is a simple terminal emulator, which doesn’t actually emulate any particular terminal. Mainly, it is designed for use with xterm and friends, which already do a perfectly good emulation, and therefore don’t need any special help; dterm simply provides a means by which...
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dterm (terminal emulator) Features
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Minicom
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
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Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulator program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external)...
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Minicom Features
1. LightweightMinicom consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. PortableMinicom can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Command line interfaceMinicom either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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RealTerm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
15 alternatives to RealTerm
RealTerm is a terminal program specially designed for capturing, controlling and debugging binary and other difficult data streams. It is far better for debugging comms than HyperTerminal. It has no support for dialing modems, BBS, etc. - that is what HyperTerminal does.
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RealTerm Features
Serial-port
Serial terminal
Timestamps
Debugging
HTerm
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Free • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
Windows
Linux
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HTerm is a terminal emulator for serial communication.
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HTerm Features
1. PortableHTerm can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
CuteCom
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
FreeBSD
16 alternatives to CuteCom
CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.
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CuteCom Features
1. PortableCuteCom can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Configurable
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.22.0, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website. It does not support terminal type emulation.
Zterm
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Free • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
Mac
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ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh. In its day, many people used it to connect to Bulletin Board Systems and download files. Now we have the internet. Its still a useful utility for those systems that only offer dialup connections and for connecting to...
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Serial terminal
Driverless
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picocom
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Linux
8 alternatives to picocom
picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped). Apart from being a handy little tool, the source distribution includes a simple, easy to use, and thoroughly documented...
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QuteSerial
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
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QuteSerial is a RS232 terminal in the veins of minicom, hyperterminal, and br@y's Terminal.exe. It allows you to access a old-fashioned RS232 (serial) port and display the received data in either a Hex or ASCII format.
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QuteSerial Features
Serial-port
Serial terminal
Bray++ Terminal
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Free • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
Windows
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