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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.

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] TerminalEmulator for MicrosoftWindows

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Last edited on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:07:05 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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