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| Developer(s) | GNOME developers |
| Stable release | 2.28.1 / 2009-10-19 |
| Preview release | 2.27.92 / 2009-09-6 |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Terminal Emulator |
| License | GPL |
GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. GNOME terminal allows users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.
GNOME Terminal is 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 --color=auto 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 emulates many, but not all, of the escape sequences supported by xterm,[1] and provides a useful subset of the VT102 DEC terminal. Newer versions support compositing and real transparency, as well as multiple tabs. It also supports URL detection (i.e., making links visible in the terminal clickable, and thus simpler to open in a web browser, ftp- or mail client than via copy-pasting).[2]
Much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Thomas E. Dickey. "XTERM - Frequently Asked Questions". http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_gnometerm.
- ^ URL detection is also a feature of some other desktop applications, e.g., Konsole.
- ^ "Additional Widgets - Terminal Widget". 2003-10-18. http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gnome/widgets/vte.html. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
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