Free terminal based software for linux

Terminal project is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarly for the Xfce desktop environment.
We developed it because we saw the need for a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator in the Xfce desktop environment, that doesnt require the user to install the GNOME plattform, but still provides a worthy alternative to the GNOME terminal emulator.
Enhancements:
- Add a new "Paste Selection" action to the "Edit" menu, which pastes the contents of the PRIMARY selection (#2242).
- Accept drops from the Thunar path bar (#2284).
- Fix installation in Win32 platforms (#2433).
- Fix incorrect english in usage text (#2381).
- Fix incorrectly handled SIGPIPE (#2349).
- Updated translations: Michal Varady (cs), Benedikt Meurer (de), Jarbas Araujo Jr. (eo), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Maximilian Schleiss (fr), Szymon Ka and #322;asz (pl), Adriano Winter Bess (pt_BR), Andrey Fedoseev (ru)
- New translations: Tenzin Dendup (dz)

gnome-terminal is the GNOME terminal emulator application. gnome-terminal is only the shell (menubar, prefs dialog); the terminal emulation ("stuff in the middle") comes from the VTE widget. Remember this when choosing a bugzilla component.

How it works:

Profiles:
all settings are stored in profiles. prefs dialog edits the current profile

Session:
just the number of open windows/tabs and their profile is stored per-session

Command line options:
do not overlap things that are preferences

The Useful Terminal I/O library is a an alternative to ncurses for working with terminfo-defined terminals.
Included are raw terminfo string access and output, an efficient buffered output system, and a keyboard driver.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes some problems when running under 2.6 kernels and some CGC crashes caused by incorrect clipping.

The Useful Terminal I/O library is a C++ alternative to ncurses for working with terminfo-defined terminals. Included are raw terminfo string access and output, an efficient buffered output system, and a keyboard driver.

Installation:

./configure
make
make install

./configure --help lists configuration options, like setting an installation path other than /usr/local. To use the library, include utio.h and link with -lutio. Look at the example programs in the demo directory to start with something that is known to work.

Tiny serial terminal is a simple and dumb tool to access serial ports. Mainly intended for use to access serial consoles of various hardware.

Usage:

Download: com.c
Version : 1.1
Size : 4607 bytes
MD5 : 73a394b6d5ad333c2bf542315e1a0b73
SHA1 : 53c8ea8a1d5450ac4237a20c843e1462acaaa96e

Building: cc -o com com.c
Usage : ./com /dev/device [speed]
Example : ./com /dev/ttyS0 [115200]
Keys : Ctrl-A - exit, Ctrl-X - display control lines status
Darcs : darcs get http://tinyserial.sf.net/
Scr.shot: screenshot.png (8862 bytes)

termit is a simple terminal emulator based on vte library.
Main features:
- tabs
- bookmarks
- changing tab name
- changing font for tabs
- encodings (all available from GTK2)
Configuration can be changed via $HOME/.termit file (example is provided).
Enhancements:
- Calls to getenv were replaced with g_getenv.
- A possible double free was fixed.

Multi Gnome Terminal is an enhanced version of gnome-terminal, with many powerful new features and extensions. The most notable enhancement is the ability to run multiple terminals within the same window.
Each terminal may be accessed by its "tab", through keyboard shortcuts, or menu selections. Inactive terminals provide an alert when the buffer changes by changing the color of the tab labels.
Other enhancements include a toolbar, a buttonbar, flexible command options to launch new terminals, tabs, and shells from either the GUI or command line, customizable key bindings for MGT functions and other uses, font shadowing, the ability to "split" terminals so that each window can simultaneously multiple terminals, the ability to "view" or "bond" terminals with other terminals, and various other improvements
Main features:
- Multiple terminals may be opened within the same Window.
- Each terminal Window is "Tabbed" for easy navigation.
- The terminal Window may be "split" vertically and/or horizontally. And also unsplit, or the split terminal can be moved to its own "Tab", or even another Window.
- Terminals may be "bonded" so that the output of a command in one terminal is echoed to all the "bonded" terminals.
- Terminals may be moved from one Multi Gnome Terminal Window to another.
- Notification that an inactive terminal buffer has changed, or is in the process of changing, via colors on Tab labels.
- Extensive keyboard shortcuts for most Multi Gnome Terminal features, and configurable key bindings for these features and other uses.
- Shading, tinting and psuedo-transparency of the Multi Gnome Terminal Window background.
- Gamma corrrection and contrast controls for background pixmaps.
- Configurable "Commands" for initializing new terminals, accessible from within the Multi Gnome Terminal GUI interface, or as command line options.
- Adds a Toolbar and Buttonbar, which can be disabled like the other GUI components. The Toolbar can be repositioned too.
- Search the scrollback buffer.
- Font "shadowing" for better contrast on transparent or pixmapped backgrounds.
- Improved terminal emulation capabilities, including support for VT52.
- Improved support for launching URLs direct from the terminal Window.
- A flexible command line for creating new Windows and Tabs.
- Bold fonts can be a different font, and different color.
- Support for pseudo-graphics characters (like xterm).
- Greatly improved Class handling (configuration profiles) with many available configuration options.