Top 15 RXVT Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.

1. Chrome Secure Shell

Chrome Secure Shell Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.......

2. Final Term

Final Term Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator. It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including: A) Semantic text menus, B) Smart command completion, C) GUI terminal controls. It brings......

3. Terra

Terra Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.......

4. GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[......

5. Sakura

Sakura sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator. Current terminal emulators based on VTE are gnome-terminal, XFCE Terminal, TermIt and a small sample program included in......

6. iTerm2

iTerm2 This is a fork of the iTerm project hosted on Sourceforge, the development of which has been languishing for a while. iTerm2 is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The......

7. evilvte

evilvte VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration......

8. TotalTerminal

TotalTerminal A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?......

9. Telix for Windows

Telix for Windows a fully-windowed terminal emulator including VT-220, WYSE-75, ANSI, and RIPscrip terminals. Other features include full color resizable concurrent scrollback buffer, two powerful scripting languages (one for programmers, one for non-programmers)......

10. Windows Quake Style Console

Windows Quake Style Console Windows Quake style console wrapper (cmd wrapper), that shows at Win+~ key and allow to run inside it different programs, e.g. FAR Manager.......

11. Yakuake

Yakuake Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.Yakuake, in the......

12. Onion Terminal

Onion Terminal oterm is a web browser unix terminal. It serves a console so you can access your server from anywhere in the world where you have an Internet connection. It effectively is an xterm in a browser. It emulates xterm commands, which are very similar to vt100 commands.......

13. WinTabber

WinTabber WinTabber is a tabmanager which enables you to tab almost any window (yes, also terminals) under windows 2000/XPWinTabber is initially made to add a fully functional tab-interface to terminal programs, like a tabbed putty and tabbed cmd, but it wil work with many more programs in the near future.......

14. Cool Retro Term

Cool Retro Term Cool Retro Term (CRT) 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.Included are an array of packaged profiles (themes) that you can fully customize to get the exact, retro look you'd......

15. Screenlets

Screenlets Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related......