Terminal emulator

A console or terminal emulator is a command line interface to a shell. You can use it to call shell commands and start programs by using your keyboard only. The console typically prints a prompt and expects you to enter your commands behind it. Here is an example: bort:/boot # ls initrd* initrd initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default  initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-xen  initrd-xen bort:/boot # firefox To use a console, press ALT_F2 and input the name of a console program as listed below.

Open a console
See open a console.

Terminal emulators

 * aterm
 * Eterm
 * Konsole
 * minicom
 * root-tail
 * rxvt
 * wterm
 * xterm
 * Xfce

Helper programs

 * screen
 * script