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Encyclopedia > GNOME Terminal
GNOME Terminal
Image:Gnome-terminal.png

The Gnome terminal displaying Pico. Transparency is enabled.
Developer: GNOME developers
Latest release: 2.14.2 / 28 May 2006
Preview release: 2.15.2 / 11 July 2006
OS: Unix-like
Use: Terminal Emulator
License: GPL
Website: directory.fsf.org/gnome-terminal

GNOME terminal, also identified as gnome-terminal, is a terminal emulator written by Havoc Pennington and others. It is part of the free software GNOME desktop software suite. This allows users of GNOME to execute commands as if they were using a real UNIX shell whilst still remaining on their desktop. Along with this comes the benefits of being able to move the window, resize it and shift it to another desktop, just like any other window in GNOME. Image File history File links Gnome-terminal. ... Image File history File links Gnometerminal. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... A gnome hiding behind a toadstool. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington is currently a Red Hat Desktop manager/engineer, but his fame in the FLOSS world is big due to his work on GNOME, Metacity, GConf, D-BUS, and more. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A gnome hiding behind a toadstool. ... A desktop is the horizontal surface of a desk. ... A gnome hiding behind a toadstool. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... A gnome hiding behind a toadstool. ...


GNOME Terminal is very 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 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, as xterm, emulates almost completely the VT102 DEC terminal, along with a series of extensions accessed through escape sequences. Newer versions support compositing and real transparency. xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. ... ls is a command specified by POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, and is thus implemented in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. ... Ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. ... aptitude is a front-end to APT. It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. ... The VT100 was a video terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which became the de facto standard used by terminal emulators. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ...


Much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget[1]. A widget (or control) is an interface component that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. ...


See also

ANSI escape codes are used to control text formatting and other output options on text terminals that are based on the ANSI X3. ...

External links

Free software Portal
  • Page at Free Software Foundation
  • Multi Gnome Terminal An extended Gnome Teminal (unmaintained).

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Preferences for the GNOME terminal emulator (1815 words)
Specifically, the GNOME terminal emulator imitates the facilities of a DEC VT220 (roughly).
For the terminal emulator, you should definitely select a ``fixed-width'' font, in which every character takes up the same amount of space along a line, rather than a ``proportional-width'' font in which, say, a capital W is much wider than a lower-case i.
The default configuration for the GNOME terminal emulator specifies ``white'' characters against a fl background, where ``white'' is actually implemented as medium gray.
GNOME Terminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (236 words)
GNOME terminal, also identified as gnome-terminal, is a terminal emulator written by Havoc Pennington and others.
GNOME Terminal is very similar to the xterm terminal emulator, and has a nearly identical feature set.
GNOME Terminal, as xterm, emulates almost completely the VT102 DEC terminal, along with a series of extensions accessed through escape sequences.
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