Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators
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View 27 business solutionsBrowse free open source Terminal Emulators and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Terminal Emulators by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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. -
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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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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. -
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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.
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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/ -
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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.
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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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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++. -
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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🤗 -
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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.
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SpeedRead
A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike
speedread is a terminal-based Spritz-style speed-reading tool that displays text word-by-word to help users read quickly while maintaining comprehension. Inspired by the original Spritz reader, speedread shows one word at a time with alignment to the optimal recognition point (ORP), allowing users to consume content faster than traditional reading methods. -
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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. Xterm.js works with most terminal apps such as bash, vim, and tmux, including support for curses-based apps and mouse events. Xterm.js is really fast, it even includes a GPU-accelerated renderer. Xterm.js is not a terminal application that you can download and use on your computer. Xterm.js is not bash. Xterm.js can be connected to processes like bash and let you interact with them (provide input, receive output). -
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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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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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Butterfly
A web terminal based on websocket and tornado
Butterfly is a web-based, xterm-compatible terminal emulator written in Python, leveraging WebSockets and Tornado to allow users to access and interact with a terminal via their browser without plugins, featuring robust theming, multi-session support, browser-native features, and security mechanisms. Native browser scroll and search. Theming in css / sass (20 preset themes) endless possibilities. HTML in your terminal! cat images. Multiple sessions support (à la screen -x) to simultaneously access a terminal from several places on the planet. Secure authentication with X509 certificates. -
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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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ROTE is a simple C library for VT102 terminal emulation. It allows the programmer to set up virtual 'screens' and send them data. They will emulate the behavior of a VT102 terminal, interpreting escape sequences, control characters and such.
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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. -
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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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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...
