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-A program that emulates a [TTY] (the most common terminal standard is the vt100
terminal).
+A program that emulates a [TTY] (the most common terminal standard is the [VT100]
terminal).
-There are many graphical
[TerminalEmulator]s to provide a window with an emulator in a
[GUI
] environment
.
-By default
, a
TerminalEmulator will normally start up running
an interactive [Shell], giving you all the power of the CommandLine
.
+Besides the
[Linux] console itself, the most common
TerminalEmulator is
[xterm(1)
]. At launch
, most
TerminalEmulator~s run
an interactive [Shell] inside themselves by default
.
-It has been said that [X11] is mostly useful because you can
have many of them
on screen at the same time.
-
-Besides the
[Linux] console itself, the default one is
xterm(1);
and while
not particularly customizable in appearance, its terminal emulation support is very mature
and complete
. There are several others that do basically the same thing but add extra features
(transparency
, color
, menu, scrollbar
, etc).
+There are many graphical TerminalEmulator~s which provide a window with an emulated terminal in a [GUI] environment.
It has been said that [X11] is mostly useful because it allows
you to
have so
many terminals
on screen at the same time. [xterm(1)] is the default one with very mature
and complete emulation support. It is
not particularly customizable in appearance, however,
and in times past was considered somewhat resource hungry
. Over time, a wide range of TerminalEmulator~s offering just about any distinguishing characteristic you particularly care for
(performance
, memory footprint
, eyecandy
, DesktopEnvironment integration
etc) have been written
.
Here are some of the more common ones:
+
* [Screen]
-* aterm(1)
-* Eterm(1), part of [Enlightenment]
-* rxvt(1) (ouR eXtended Virtual Terminal)
-* gnome-terminal(1), part of [GNOME]
-* konsole(1), part of [KDE]
-* [PuTTY] -
a [Free] terminal emulator
for MicrosoftWindows.
+* [
aterm(1)]
+* [
Eterm(1)]
, part of [Enlightenment]
+* [
rxvt(1)]
(ouR eXtended Virtual Terminal)
+* [
gnome-terminal(1)]
, part of [GNOME]
+* [
konsole(1)]
, part of [KDE]
+* [PuTTY],
a [Free] TerminalEmulator
for MicrosoftWindows
