Free terminal emulator software for linux

Wide Area Link Emulator enables you to set and test various parameters of a WAN access link (also known as a bottleneck link) before testing on a fully-functional network.

Any ISP has a high bandwidth LAN (of the order of tens of Mbps, e.g. Ethernet) and a WAN access link with relatively low speeds (of the order of a few Kbps to a few Mbps). To be able to evaluate the ISPs performance, actual tests will have to be conducted on a live, fully functional network. This would imply enabling certain features in communication equipment which could be detrimental to the proper functioning of a commissioned network. To address such a problem of being able to characterize/quantify the network operation in terms of its performance with respect to various parameters, a test-bed emulating the ISPs connectivity to the Internet would be an ideal solution.

An important factor in setting up such a test-bed, is emulating the WAN Access Link. Using complex hardware is costly. Such a link can however be easily implemented by emulating the scenario on popular physical technology such as Ethernet. By changing the TCP/IP stack on a Personal Computer, the rate at which packets are injected into the network can be controlled and other necessary features can easily be added.

WALE was implemented in 2 phases and the first version can emulated bandwidths up to 8Mbps and uses FIFO queues with drop-tail.

WALE v2 can emulate bandwidths of up to 80Mbps(a 10-fold improvement over version 1) due to the stripped down version of Micro-second resolution timer being used in the Linux kernel. WALE also implements differentiated services are recommended by IETF. A hash-based packet classifier is used to classify packets into one of 3 queues (Expedited Forwarding, Assured Forwarding and Best Effort). A simple priority scheduling has been implemented between the queues.

Version 2 has been implemented in the Generic Device Layer of the Linux Kernel. The kernel version is 2.2.19. WALE2 kernel patch can be downloaded here. An ncurses based front end has been implemented for setting and viewing various parameters of the bottleneck link.

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

Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is a frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools.
Main features:
- GTK+-2 frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools
- GNOME panel applet to quickly launch saved profiles
- reads and writes profiles in the Microsoft format (.rdp), maintaining compatability with the Microsoft client
- similar look and functionality to the Microsoft client
- written in C using GTK and GNOME
- features a profile launcher which launches saved profiles
- Translated to 20+ languages.
- support for rdesktop 1.3
- support for VNC clients (*vncviewer)
- supported vnc options are -fullscreen, -geometry, -depth and -viewonly (set by checking "no motion events"). for a vncpasswd file, put the full path to the file in the username field.
- support for X via Xnest

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.

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.