---
name: "cutecom"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cutecom"
version: "0.51.0-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cutecom"
---

# cutecom(1)

graphical serial terminal.

## NAME

cutecom - graphical serial terminal.

## SYNOPSIS

**cutecom**

## DESCRIPTION

**CuteCom** is a graphical serial terminal, like **minicom**. It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices. It features a lineoriented interface instead of character-oriented, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support (requires the lrzsz package) and hexadecimal input and output among other things.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  prints a short help message

- **-s**, **--session** \<session\_name\>

  opens a previously defined session. A new Session with default connection  parameters is created when a session with this name can not be found in  the config file

## FILES

- \~/.config/CuteCom/CuteCom5.conf

  Personal CuteCom configuration file (with sessions stored there also).

## SEE ALSO

[**minicom**(1)](/minicom/1.md), [**sz**(1)](/sz/1.md).

## AUTHOR

CuteCom was originally written by Alexander Neundorf \<neundorf@kde.org\> and is now maintained by Meinhard Ritscher \<cyc1ingsir@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Roman I Khimov \<roman@khimov.ru\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).