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We've compiled a list of 41 free and paid alternatives to xterm. The primary competitors include Terminator, GNOME Terminal. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between xterm and iTerm2, Terminal, Hyper. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington...

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

Hyper
Free Open Source

Extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards.

tilda
Free Open Source

Drop down terminal, like Guake.

Tilix
Free Open Source

A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3.

iTerm
Free Open Source

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.

Konsole
Free Open Source

Konsole is a terminal to run a command shell.

rxvt-unicode
Free Open Source

Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt.

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.

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xterm Overview

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

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