Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

• Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty || alacritty

• aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || atermAUR

• cool-retro-term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term

• CoreTerminal — Terminal emulator based on qtermwidget. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreterminalAUR

• CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecomAUR

• Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-terminal/ || deepin-terminal

• Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

https://github.com/mej/Eterm || etermAUR

• foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || foot

• Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyperAUR

• Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

https://konsole.kde.org/ ||