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A program that emulates a [TTY] (the most common terminal standard is the [VT100] terminal).
-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.
+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.
-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 you can
have so many of them
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.
+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
