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XZ Utils – data compression software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.

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Lepton – image compression tool and file format

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

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Tabby – terminal emulator for modern age

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client. Tabby has a large feature set.

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urxvt – fork of the well known terminal emulator rxvt

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

rxvt-unicode (commonly known as urxvt) is a modern, Unicode-aware, colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement.

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Hyper – cross-platform terminal built on open web standards

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards.

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Tilix – tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget and conforms to GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

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Guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Guake’s style of window is based on an FPS game.

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Termite – keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Termite is a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

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Terminator – useful tool for arranging terminals

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Terminator is a small project to produce an efficient way of filling a large area of screen space with terminals.

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st – simple terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less. st is free and open source software published under the MIT/X Consortium License.

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WezTerm – GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer.

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xterm – terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals.

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Tilda – Gtk based drop down terminal

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tilda is a terminal emulator and can be compared with other popular terminal emulators such as gnome-terminal (Gnome), Konsole (KDE), xterm.

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GNOME Terminal – terminal program for GNOME

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

GNOME Terminal emulates the xterm application developed by the X Consortium. In turn, the xterm application emulates the DEC VT102 terminal.

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Extraterm – swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Extraterm is a project to build a terminal emulator and expand it with new features to support modern workflows.

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DomTerm – terminal emulator, REPL console, and screen multiplexer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

DomTerm is a terminal emulator, screen multiplexer and REPL console using web technologies (JavaScript and DOM).

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contour – modern and fast terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use.

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foot – fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

foot is a fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. foot supports all fonts that can be loaded by freetype.

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Terminology – terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Terminology is a fast, lean and visually enhanced open source terminal emulator from the Enlightenment desktop environment.

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Xfce Terminal – modern terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Xfce Terminal (xfce4-terminal) is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features.

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