GNOME Terminal
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Screenshot of the GNOME Terminal 3.12
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| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
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| Stable release | 3.22.3 (9 November 2016) |
| Preview release | 3.23.90 (15 February 2017) |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux and Unix-like |
| Type | Terminal Emulator |
| License | GNU General Public License, version 3 or any later version |
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GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to access a UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.
GNOME Terminal ('gnome-terminal' from the command line or GNOME's Alt-F2 launcher) emulates the xterm terminal emulator and provides some of the same features.
GNOME Terminal supports multiple profiles. A user can create multiple profiles for his or her account. Users can then set configuration options on a per-profile basis and assign a name to each profile. The available configuration options range from different fonts, different colors, emission of the terminal bell, the behavior of scrolling, and how the terminal handles compatibility with the backspace and delete key.
When GNOME Terminal starts, it can be configured to launch the user's default shell or run a custom command. These options can be configured per profile, allowing users to execute different commands depending on the profile. For example, some users may have one profile to launch their default shell, another profile that connects to another computer remotely through SSH, and finally a profile that opens a GNU Screen session.
GNOME Terminal supports a couple of different compatibility options for interfacing with older software that depends on varying keyboard-to-ASCII assignments. In computing, there has been ambiguity between the backspace key and delete key. When the user presses the backspace key, the computer can either delete the character before the cursor, or the character at the cursor, which introduces this ambiguity (see ASCII). GNOME Terminal allows the user specify which control character or escape sequence the delete and the backspace keys should generate. Users can specify this option on a per-profile basis.
Colored text is available in GNOME Terminal, although users may turn this feature off. GNOME Terminal supports a basic set of 16 colors, which the user can choose. Furthermore, GNOME Terminal has support for a palette of 256 colors by default. Some programs, such as vim, can use that many colors. As of version 3.12, it also supports RGB direct true colors.
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