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 Cmder.

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  1. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. evilvte icon
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    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. svte icon
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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. CLIX icon
     2 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Truck icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8.  2 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. FbTerm icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Another Term icon
     2 likes

    SSH / Telnet / UART dongles (USB and Bluetooth) / own PTY client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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