Terminal Emulators for Linux

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    eDEX-UI

    eDEX-UI

    Customizable science fiction terminal emulator

    eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor designed with a customizable science fiction computer interface. Inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects, eDEX-UI presents a futuristic look and feel while still being able to function as a full-featured terminal emulator. eDEX-UI offers advanced monitoring support for real-time systems and networks. It also offers full touchscreen support; a directory viewer; and for a completely unique sci-fi experience, advanced customization options via themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections, and even optional sound effects. If you’re a science fiction fan or are just looking for something different in a terminal emulator, eDEX-UI will surely satisfy and give you a cool and unique experience.
    Downloads: 3,767 This Week
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    Thinstation is a thin client linux distro using std. x86 hw. It can boot from network, pxe, syslinux, CD, floppy or flash-disk and connect to servers using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, Telnet, tn5250, tarentella, 2X, NX, Thinlinc, VMWare VDI or ICA.
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    Downloads: 552 This Week
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    This project maintains the Linux Console tools, which include utilities to test and configure joysticks, connect legacy devices to the kernel's input subsystem (providing support for serial mice, touchscreens etc.), and test the input event layer.
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    Downloads: 1,086 This Week
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    Alacritty

    Alacritty

    A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

    Alacritty is the fastest open source terminal emulator there is. How is it the fastest? With such a strong focus on simplicity and performance, Alacritty’s included features are very carefully considered, ensuring that it remains blazingly fast. It’s got a GPU for rendering that makes a whole lot of optimizations possible. In various benchmarked terminals, Alacritty has shown to be either faster, or way faster than others. Alacritty requires no additional setup, but still allows configuration of many aspects of the terminal. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.
    Downloads: 39 This Week
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    SSVNC adds encryption security to VNC. It provides a GUI for Windows, MacOSX, and Unix that automatically starts up an SSL or SSH tunnel for connections to any VNC server. It also supports VeNCrypt encryption. The Unix viewer has many new features.
    Downloads: 85 This Week
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    Arabeyes

    A project to increase free Arabic fonts on Unix/Linux

    Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions.
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    Downloads: 232 This Week
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    tn5250

    5250 telnet client

    tn5250 emulates a 5250 terminal or printer over telnet, for connecting to IBM Power Systems, iSeries and AS/400 computers running IBM i, i5/OS and OS/400. It runs on any Unix or Windows system. Note that this project is now on GitHub at https://github.com/tn5250/tn5250
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    Downloads: 94 This Week
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    PHP File Manager

    PHP File Manager

    phpFileManager a complete filesystem management tool on a single file.

    phpFileManager is a complete filesystem management tool on a single file. A server administration tool using PHP, meant for rapid file access, and also to verify the server configuration and security. The script can be renamed and deployed on an unique known url, and offers password protection.. All dependencies, like images, js and css files, are included inside the same file, so that the script can run even on offline devices, like a local Raspberry Pi, or ESP32 microcontroller. The size of the script is bellow 1Mb, and i want to make it even smaller. To conclude, this script is also a repository of several hand made functions, organized in sections, meant for learning PHP and explore all PHP capabilities. You can learn, copy and use them on your own projects. Help the project with a donation: Will allow the view of two phpFileManager from diferent URLs on the same screen. Like MC (Midnight Commander) does. https://www.dulldusk.com/product/donation-for-phpfilemanager/
    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in your program.
    Downloads: 34 This Week
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    cool-retro-term

    cool-retro-term

    A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

    cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight. It uses the QML port of qtermwidget (Konsole). This terminal emulator works under Linux and macOS and requires Qt 5.2 or higher. Settings such as colors, fonts, and effects can be accessed via context menu. Just grab the latest AppImage from the release page and make it executable and run it. Make sure to install the dependencies first. Once you installed all dependencies (Qt is installed and in your path) you need to compile and run the application. Also, before the building process, remember to install Xcode and agree to the licence agreement.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator , which supports various character sets and encodings in the world.
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    xterm.js

    xterm.js

    A terminal for the web

    xterm.js is a TypeScript-based front-end terminal emulation component that lets web applications embed fully-featured terminal interfaces. It powers in-browser terminals in tools like VS Code and browser IDEs.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. The rxvt terminal is light on system resources and otherwise packe dwit
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    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH

    Cluster administration tool

    ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.
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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    GTKTerm is a small graphical shell like XTerm. It provides serveral terminals in one window and some nice features. It´s available for GTK 2.x.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Twin - Textmode WINdow environment

    Twin is a "retro" program for embedded or remote systems

    Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a variety of displays - all with mouse support: from a plain text terminal, to a Linux console, to a full kde, gnome or X11 desktop. Source code hosted at https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    VPLE

    VPLE

    Vulnerable Pentesting Lab Environment

    VPLE (Linux) Vulnerable Pentesting Lab Environment VPLE is an Intentionally Vulnerable Linux Virtual Machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing Labs. In VPLE bunch of labs are Available. NOTE:- "Only run in VMWare Pls Don’t run in VirtualBox" The default login and password is administrator: password. List Of All Labs in one VM:- 1. Web-DVWA 2. Mutillidae 3. Webgoat 4. Bwapp 5. Juice-shop 6. Security-ninjas 7. WordPress We are adding more labs in few days🤗
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt. It is portable, lightweight and fast. It supports psuedo-transparency, background image (JPEG/PNG/XPM), tinting, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI style scrollbar, multi-languages (CJK), XIM, freetype font...
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    iTerm.app

    Project on hold. Try http://www.iterm2.com/ instead.

    iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, full-screen, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features. This project is indefinitely on hold, and we recommend that you try http://www.iterm2.com/ instead.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    A nearly full options telnet 5250 terminal emulator. It includes a programmers API to improve 5250 panels by adding field popups, hints, ...
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    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    EQEmulator Core Server

    EQEmulator Core Server

    Open Source Fan-Based EverQuest Emulator Server project

    EQEmulator is a custom completely from-scratch open source server implementation for EverQuest built mostly on C++.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Eterm is a color vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement. It is designed with a Freedom of Choice philosophy, leaving as much power, flexibility, and freedom as possible in the hands of the user.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    CULT is an Open Source software-only network bootable thin client Operating System that provides a complete solution for thin clients, PCs or virtualized hardware.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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