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I've an idea about creating an open source project based on custom terminal emulator development for GNU/Linux. I googled around but didn't find any source code for the native GNU/Linux terminal emulator. Can anyone guide me about where to start and where can I find the source code for native terminal.

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Terminal emulator for bash? – Tachyons Dec 30 '12 at 16:46
This question would be more appropriate on Unix.SE or SO. – gertvdijk Dec 30 '12 at 16:47
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I think you need to do more research, your question does not make sense. What are you trying to do. I would start reading about TTY VTY Terminals, and console. Terminal, is basically (from a user perspective) just gibberish that doesn't mean anything that they would recognize. This site should give you a good start, but you have a lot to read first. – coteyr Dec 30 '12 at 16:51

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Source code for Gnome-Terminal, i.e the Terminal emulator that we use in Ubuntu is here

While here is the code for same Gnome-Terminal in Gnome's git repository.

There may be differences between those two.

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