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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 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
.
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.
+* [PuTTY],
a [Free] terminal emulator for MicrosoftWindows
