
Yes, there is a selection of alternatives available now that fill in this gap.
Alternative hyperterm windows#
However, like all good things, the HyperTerminal journey came to an end with Windows XP, which was the last version of the OS that bundled the program.
Alternative hyperterm serial#
It could even be used to control the serial devices on your PC. This was a sweet little communication program in those vintage versions of Windows, an application designed to connect with everything from remote computers to bulletin board systems. You can even add this information (abbreviated) to your signature using the control panel link in the above left of this forum screen then when you post a question or reply to one, that info will automatically be there, ex: see mine and others below their posts.Time for a blast from the past! If you are fortunate enough to be using computers in the good old days of the 90s, then HyperTerminal is sure to be a familiar name for you. This information helps anyone here in this forum to be able to answer any questions you may have better, thanks. You can get this information from top of your system menu's Welcome screen, System Information program(s), and the best is by typing in " inxi -Fxz" from a console terminal prompt, which you can then copy and paste back here. Note2: You might have to add "guake" or "yakuake" to your system settings, start up programs, for it to start every time you start your computer I did.įYI: It would help everyone here to have more information about your system's setup: like what edition and version of Linux Mint are you using, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE (my fav), or Xfce version 17 or 17.1, or What? 32-bit or 64-bit? Some more information about your hardware would be useful as well. Yakuake - I love this console terminal program, but I had to change the default F12 trigger key to F11 trigger key because F12 was used by other programs easy to do in your system settings menu, shortcuts and gestures, global shortcuts, yakuake. *** Note: I also love the "drop down" Linux console terminal options: User Malalo: I manage Cisco switches and can connect to them by Telnet, using xterm (basic terminal in Ubuntu), just by typing: telnet ip_address_of_switchĥ Linux / Unix Commands For Connecting To The Serial Console Just using the default Linux Mint console terminal. "Komport" is a GUI based dialup terminal for KDE Linux Alternatives To Microsoft HyperTerminal HyperTerminal for Linux - 2 options: "cutecom" with a graphical user interface (GUI), or "minicom" command line based You may be able to do a lot through the regular Linux Mint console terminal, but again, we need more info.


If you search the SPM for "terminal", you will see a lot of options. So far from what I have been reading, the most popular and liked "hyper terminal" programs for Linux are: Cutecom, GTKterm, minicom.
Alternative hyperterm install#
I provided some links below for you to look at, and some of the "hyper terminal" type programs are available in the software repositories like your Software Manager or the Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) where you can install them. If you could be more specific on what hardware that you need to use "hyper terminal" for and how you want to access that hardware (basically, exactly what are you trying to do?). I think it would help to have some more detailed information, including FYI below.
