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CLUSTER EMULATOR-TERMINAL-VTE · 19 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-01-07

Terminal emulator projects

This cluster comprises terminal emulator projects spanning desktop, mobile, library, and headless/AI-focused implementations. The entry timeline from July 2010 to June 2026 shows a sparse, steady stream of new projects, with no month exceeding two entries. Traction leaders are termite, shellix, and QMLKonsole, each displaying 0 stars, indicating limited user adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2010: 1DEC 2011: 1JUN 2015: 1NOV 2017: 1JAN 2018: 1JUL 2019: 1JUL 2020: 1DEC 2020: 1JUL 2021: 1MAR 2022: 1SEP 2023: 1JUL 2024: 1FEB 2025: 1JUN 2025: 2DEC 2025: 1APR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1
JUL 2010JUN 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 19 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01termite0★28 daysliveopen sourceA simple VTE-based terminal emulator for Linux that runs shell commands.
  2. 02shellix0★22 daysliveopen sourceA virtual terminal for Linux with tab support and customizable options.
  3. 03QMLKonsole0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal emulator for mobile devices that provides additional keyboard buttons for convenient touch interaction.
  4. 04libvterm-vwm0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal emulation library mimicking VT100 and rxvt capabilities.
  5. 05gv-terminal0★4 moliveopen sourceSimple GTK terminal emulator for desktop environments.
  6. 06tilix0★1 moliveopen sourceTiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3 that arranges terminals in a grid.
  7. 07termlite0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA lightweight terminal emulator built with GTK3 and VTE for Linux and macOS.
  8. 08fyneterm0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA graphical terminal emulator for Linux, built with Fyne, offering a native GUI experience.
  9. 09mantid-term0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal emulator with customizable keybindings and multiple tabs based on Vte-ng.
  10. 10tachyonterm-bin0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceHeadless terminal emulator designed for AI integration.
  11. 11vttest0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that tests whether a terminal correctly implements VT100 terminal emulation standards.
  12. 12roxterm0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTabbed terminal emulator based on VTE for running command-line applications.
  13. 13st0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA virtual terminal emulator for the X Window System that provides a simple and efficient text interface.
  14. 14eterm0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal emulator that emulates a VT102 display and serves as a replacement for xterm.
  15. 15mterm-bin0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAn Electron-based terminal emulator built with React, TypeScript, and Vite.
  16. 16perl-term-vt1020★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceEmulates a DEC VT102 terminal, enabling integration with terminal applications.
  17. 17kermit0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal emulator based on VTE library with simple interface.
  18. 18mt0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal emulator written in GTK+ and Rust.
  19. 19libvterm-0.10★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAbstract C library implementing a VT220 or xterm-like terminal emulator.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.