RXVT Alternatives

RXVT is described as '–our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to RXVT for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best RXVT alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RXVT are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Station is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in a graphical environment. Station features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Deepin Terminal is a terminal manager developed by deepin team that can freely split window according to users requirements with horizontal and vertical screen split supported. It allows users to do terminal settings of fonts and colors changing, background pictures...

    57 Deepin Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Deepin
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    svte is a terminal that is flexible and has a small codebase. Its aim is to be lightweight and fast, while providing nice integration with a modern Linux environment. svte is yet another minimal GTK incarnation of VTE. svte is an alternative to Sakura, Lilyterm, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  4. CLIX icon
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    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. CMD++ icon
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    CMD++ is a command line program, which was devoloped as alternative to the Windows (R) console. You can use it at public places (eg. at school) when the native console is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).

    28 CMD++ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. ExtraPuTTY icon
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    ExtraPuTTY is a fork from 0.65 version of PuTTY and has all the features from the original while adding new ones as described below:

    33 ExtraPuTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  7. Putty for Mac icon
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    Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

    83 Putty for Mac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. Truck icon
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    Still using FTP? Truck hauls data 30x faster thanks to its modern rsync engine (included) which compresses, de-duplicates and encrypts – giving significantly higher performance and security, right from the first transfer.

    116 Truck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. FbTerm icon
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    FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device or VESA video card. Features include:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. HyperTerminal is a terminal emulator capable of connecting to systems through TCP/IP Networks, Dial-Up Modems, and COM ports. Until Windows XP, it is included with the operating system, but, starting from Windows Vista, it has to be bought separately.

    21 HyperTerminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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