Open Source Windows Terminal Emulators
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View 29 business solutionsBrowse free open source Terminal Emulators and projects for Windows 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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Project has been moved to https://github.com/marchaesen/vcxsrv Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition, although current project and makefile are not fully compatible anymore. Versions starting from 1.14.3.0 are not compatible with Windows XP anymore.
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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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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TeraTerm Project is developing the terminal emulator Tera Term and the SSH compatible extension module TTSSH. This is open source software under the BSD license. This is the official successor to the original Tera Term Pro 2.3. Development takes place on the project page on GitHub.
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Cmder
Portable console emulator for Windows
Cmder is a lovely portable console emulator package for Windows. It was built out of sheer frustration due to the lack of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on the amazing ConEmu, with major config overhaul, enhancements from Clink, Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. Overall, it's got a very pleasant user interface that's much improved from ConEmu. The biggest advantage with cmder is that it is portable. It was designed to be totally self-contained, totally free of external dependencies. This makes it perfect for USB Sticks or cloud storage, so you can have your settings, aliases, binaries and history wherever you go. -
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ExtraPuTTY - fork of putty 0.67. (Add win32 API,shortcuts for pre-defined command,can use files instead of the registry,auto-reconnect, scripting a session with lua,integrates FTP,TFTP,Ymodem,Xmodem transfert protocols, integrates cygwin, zmodem, session manager,hyper link projects and others ...)
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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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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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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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Kitty
Fast, Featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
Kitty is a fast GPU based terminal editor that allows you to offload rendering to the GPU for lower system load. Kitty works on Linux and macOS and uses OpenGL for rendering which makes it portable to other platforms similar to Unix. -
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Universal BootLoader Tool helps you easily recover from a failed rom flash, and is known to turn an free update rom into a full rom. (e.g. from the free WM5 update rom available for hx4700 Pocket PCs on HP.com) Only tested with HP iPAQ Pocket PCs.
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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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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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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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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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Tabbed PuTTY Interface! Features: A tabbed interface and dockable windows, Fullscreen mode, Working with existing PuTTY binary, or allow you to download it directly from the official page, Let’s you export/import PuTTY connections to single file, Download it for free for any use! ****************************************************************** !INFORMATION! PuTTY manager morfing into Alternative Windows Console ! Please visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/windowsconsole/ ******************************************************************
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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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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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mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator , which supports various character sets and encodings in the world.
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Dave's Telnet
Windows Terminal Emulator
dtelnet: A Free Telnet Client for Windows 16/32/64 Emulates many terminal types 'linux,xterm,rxvt,konsole,vt100,vt320,vt420' (xterm[-256color] is the preferred), talks protocols 'telnet' and 'login'. Many customization options available. -
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Portable X-Server
A minimal X Window System for Windows
The goal of this project is to provide a minimal X Window System which will run out of the box on any Windows 7+ system. To realize this, I take a suitable installation package from the project VcXsrv Windows X Server (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/), install it, remove all files that aren't needed for basic functionality and archive it to a .zip file. Portable X-Server also integrates seamlessly into WinSSHTerm, a tabbed SSH solution for Windows: http://www.winsshterm.net -
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It is a simple implementation of SMTP client, which has functions of sending email and friends list. I will enrich its functionality gradually.
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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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Upterm
Terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron
Upterm (formerly Black Screen) is an IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, it's both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. Upterm shows the autocompletion box as you type and tries to be smart about what to suggest. Often you can find useful additional information on the right side of the autocompletion, e.g. expanded alias value, command descriptions, value of the previous directory (cd -), etc. All command-line programs (including emacs, ssh and vim) should work as expected. If you experience any glitches, please create an issue.
