Top 15 ST - Simple Terminal Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

st is a simple terminal implementation for X.

What is wrong with xterm ?

xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here’s an excerpt from the README:

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here

This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014
subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.

1. PieTTY

PieTTY PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow. Drag'n'drop scp [scp only in stable version]......

2. HyperTerm

HyperTerm A beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards."In the beginning, our focus will be primarily around speed, stability and the development of the correct API for extension authors.In the future, we anticipate the community will come up with innovative additions to enhance what could......

3. Black Screen

Black Screen Black Screen is a terminal emulator for the 21st century. Unlike most emulators, it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.AutocompletionBlack Screen shows the autocompletion box as you type......

4. vijazedan Timer

vijazedan Timer This is a simple app that creates a timer, and when time finishes, a sound is played. It has two modes, GUI mode for user interface and terminal/console mode to execute and use it from a terminal emulator/command prompt.Icons: icons8.com......

5. FireCMD

FireCMD FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session. A UNIX like environment and UNIX commands are also provided using UWIN package developed......

6. ConsoleZ

ConsoleZ console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.......

7. ROXTerm

ROXTerm ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator.......

8. ContextConsole Shell Extension

ContextConsole Shell Extension The ContextConsole Shell Extension adds an "Open Command Prompt" menu item to the context menus (right-click menus) in Windows Explorer so that you can open a command prompt in the selected directory (or directories) or in the current directory that you are viewing.......

9. Cygwin

Cygwin Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.......

10. fish

fish fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. With autosuggestions, VGA color, man-page completions, web......

11. win-bash

win-bash win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as......

12. dtach

dtach dtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs......

13. clink

clink Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe".If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline' library that Bash uses). It is a small utility to enhance "cmd.exe", adding more powerful command line completion, editing, and......

14. GNU readline

GNU readline GNU readline is a software library that provides line-editing and history capabilities for interactive programs with a command-line interface. It allows users to move the text cursor, search the command history, control a kill ring (a more flexible version of a copy/paste clipboard) and use tab completion on a text......

15. rxvt-unicode

rxvt-unicode Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources. Developed by Marc Lehmann, some of the more outstanding features of rxvt-unicode include international language support......