Different terminal emulators are available with Linux. One of the following is likely to be the
default used with your Linux system:
xterm??”A common terminal emulator for the X Window System. (In fact, I??™ve never
seen an X Window System for a major Linux distribution that didn??™t include xterm.)
Although it doesn??™t provide menus or many special features, it is available with most
Linux distributions that support a GUI.
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gnome-terminal??”The default Terminal emulator window that comes with GNOME. It
consumes more system resources than xterm does, and it has useful menus for cutting
and pasting, opening new Terminal tabs or windows, and setting terminal profiles.
konsole??”The konsole terminal emulator that comes with the KDE desktop environment.
With konsole, you can display multi-language text encoding and text in different
colors.
The differences in running commands within a Terminal window have more to do with the shell
you are running than the type of Terminal window you are using. Differences in Terminal windows
have more to do with the features each supports??”for example, how much output is saved that
can be scrolled back to, whether you can change font types and sizes, and whether the Terminal
window supports features such as transparency.
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