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Terminal
Developer(s)	Apple Inc.
Operating system	macOS
Platform	x86-64, IA-32, PowerPC
Type	Terminal emulator
Website	www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOSoperating system by Apple.^[1] Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the predecessor operating systems of macOS.^[2]

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As a terminal emulator, the application provides text-based access to the operating system, in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of macOS, by providing a command line interface to the operating system when used in conjunction with a Unix shell, such as zsh (the default shell in macOS Catalina^[3]).^[4] The user can choose other shells available with macOS, such as the Korn shell, tcsh, and bash.^[4]^[5]

The preferences dialog for Terminal.app in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and later offers choices for values of the TERM environment variable. Available options are ansi, dtterm, nsterm, rxvt, vt52, vt100, vt102, xterm, xterm-16color and xterm-256color, which differ from the OS X 10.5 (Leopard) choices by dropping the xterm-color and adding xterm-16color and xterm-256color. These settings do not alter the operation of Terminal, and the xterm settings do not match the behavior of xterm.^[6]

Terminal includes several features that specifically access macOS APIs and features. These include the ability to use the standard macOS Help search function to find manual pages and integration with Spotlight.^{[citation needed]} Terminal was used by Apple as a showcase for macOS graphics APIs in early advertising of Mac OS X,^{[citation needed]} offering a range of custom font and coloring options, including transparent backgrounds.

References[edit]

^'What Is Mac OS X - All Applications and Utilities - Terminal'. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013.
^Wünschiers, Röbbe (January 1, 2004). Computational Biology: Unix/Linux, data processing and programming : with 19 figures and 12 tables. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN9783540211426.
^'Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac'. Apple Support. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
^ ^a^bMcElhearn, Kirk (December 26, 2006). The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN9780470113851.
^Kissell, Joe (January 1, 2009). Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal. TidBITS Publishing, Inc. ISBN9781933671550.
^'nsterm - AppKit Terminal.app', terminfo.src, retrieved June 7, 2013

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This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.

Character-oriented terminal emulators[edit]

Unix-like[edit]

Command-line interface[edit]

Linux console – implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences.

The following terminal emulators run inside of other terminals, utilizing libraries such as Curses and Termcap:

GNU Screen – Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Minicom – text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems
tmux – Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen

Graphical[edit]

X11 and Wayland[edit]

Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland

xterm – standard terminal for X11
GNOME Terminal – default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support
guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME
konsole – default terminal for KDE
xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features
Terminology^[1] – enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
Tilda – a drop-down terminal
Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE
rxvt – lightweight terminal emulator

aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)
Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment
mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10)
urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode
Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker

macOS[edit]

Terminal emulators used on macOS

Terminal – default macOS terminal
iTerm2 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS
xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts
ZTerm – serial line terminal

Apple Classic Mac OS[edit]

Microsoft Windows[edit]

ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
mintty – Cygwin terminal
Windows Console – Windows command line terminal

Microsoft MS-DOS[edit]

Qmodem and Qmodem Pro

IBM OS/2[edit]

ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2

Commodore Amiga[edit]