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

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome.

Terminator is a terminal emulator released under General Public License and is available for GNU/Linux Platform.

iTerm2 is a GPL-licensed terminal emulator for macOS. It was derived from and has mostly supplanted the earlier "iTerm" application.

Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake) is a KDE terminal emulator. 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. It supports skinning, split viewing, and profiles, as Konsole does.

Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system.

Konsole is a free and open-source terminal emulator which is part of KDE Applications.

Tilda is a GTK+ terminal emulator. It is based on the VTE terminal emulator widget underlying GNOME Terminal.

TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app which provides Quake-style terminal window available on keyboard shortcut.

Xfce Terminal was developed to fit the need for a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator in the Xfce desktop environment.

xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it (normally the process is a Unix shell).

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE.

Terminology is a terminal emulator.

Hyper is a terminal emulation program capable of connecting to systems through the internet via Telnet or SSH, by Dial-Up Modem, or directly connected by a RS232 serial cable and COM port.

Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and libvte.