Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator emulates a video terminal within another display architecture (usually X). It starts up with the default commandline shell that is defined as login shell for that user. On Gentoo the default shell is bash.

Popular terminal emulators are:
 * XTerm: as default which comes with X.org, it is still used a lot.
 * rxvt-unicode: lighter in resource usage, fast and more feature-rich (tabs, transparency, Unicode, etc.).
 * Konsole: default terminal emulator for KDE
 * GNOME Terminal: default terminal emulator for GNOME