GNOME terminal, also identified as gnome-terminal, is a terminal emulator written by Havoc Pennington and others. It is part of the open-source GNOME desktop software suite. This allows users of GNOME to execute commands as if they were using a real UNIX shell whilst still remaining on their desktop. Along with this comes the benefits of being able to move the window, resize it and shift it to another desktop, just like any other window in GNOME.

gnome-terminal is very similar to the xterm terminal emulator, and has a nearly identical feature set. Some of the more important features of the two include their support for coloured text (the output of a command such as ls shows the use of this feature well), and support for mouse events within the window. Mouse events are commonly used within ncurses based applications for using menus or buttons that normally would have been selected using the keyboard. The application aptitude makes use of this feature. gnome-terminal, as xterm, emulates almost completely the VT102 DEC terminal, along with a series of extensions accessed through escape sequences.

External links

• Page at Free Software Foundation
• Multi Gnome Terminal An extended Gnome Teminal (unmaintained).

Terminal emulators | GNOME

Gnome-terminal | Gnome-terminal