Coolterm Serial Terminal is the best serial terminal i have used for personal. It has linux version can be downloaded from Author's Website . CoolTerm Serial terminal has been developed by Roger Meier in Xojo . It is very simple and cool.
Any hold backs I should know?
CoolTerm has one disadvantage though: it requires installation of some 32-bit compatibility libraries on a 64-bit machine. If you really need it, they can easily be installed.
How to set it up?
These are the steps I followed to make it run on Ubuntu Linux[18.04]
- Download the zipped folder from the link above, right click and extract here [in ~/Downloads].
- Move the folder to your favorite binary directory
rnjn@kali:~$ sudo mv /Downloads/CoolTermLinux /opt/
3. Install 32-bit compatibility libraries
rnjn@kali:~$ sudo apt update
rnjn@kali:~$ sudo apt install libicu-dev:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libgtk-3-dev:i386 libharfbuzz-dev:i386 libpango1.0-dev:i386
4. Create a .desktop launcher file for Coolterm and add it to favorites.
rnjn@kali:~ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/coolterm.desktop
Paste the following script in that file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Serial Port Terminal
Comment=Communicate via a serial port
Exec=/opt/CoolTermLinux/CoolTerm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/opt/CoolTermLinux/appicon_128.png
Run without creating desktop Entry:
Extract the zip file and go to the executable file inside extracted folder.
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