But if there’s no compelling use case for them to be there by default, just as there’s no longer a compelling use case for Brasero or Empathy to ship out-of-the-box, a little clean-up wouldn’t hurt.Īfter all, those who want them can easily install them from Ubuntu Software. It makes little appreciable difference whether Ubuntu 17.10 ships with 3 separate terminal entries in its launcher or not. We don’t get backup apps for anything else!Īnother supposed reason for the inclusion Xterm is to provide a “complete X env”.īut, as Quigley notes in his email, with Wayland very much on the horizon, mightn’t it make more sense to pull in any critical X environment packages explicitly, rather than relying on a terminal emulator to do so?
Paste into uxterm ubuntu windows#
But, even assuming it does, is xterm really that much of a benefit when a virtual console is but a combo press of Ctrl + Alt + F2 away? This would be the lines you need in your vimrc for this purpose: set clipboard+unnamed ' use the clipboards of vim and win set paste ' Paste from a windows or from vim set go+a ' Visual selection automatically copied to the clipboard. Typical menu items are Terminal, xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and uxterm. Ctrl Shift V (paste) Ctrl Shift C (copy) In an xterm I get into insert mode, highlight what I want to copy, then use the middle button, (to trigger paste), ensuring I click where I want highlighted pasted. The official reason for including Xterm is to ensure there is a backup terminal available should GNOME Terminal have any issues. Look through your system menus for an application to do this. I only ever use GNOME Terminal, which is the default Ubuntu terminal emulator, or a GNOME Terminal alternative that I go out and install for myself. In an installed setup, those two menu items make gnome-shell have 3 pages instead of 2 in my testing.” But those differences are, to my end-user eyes at least, not especially self-evident.Ī discussion has kicked off on the Ubuntu desktop mailing list that suggests I am not alone in questioning the value of including quite so many terminals.Ĭanonical’s Brian Quigley explains: “Xterm takes up two menu items (xterm and uxterm) and doesn’t provide any more functionality then gnome-terminal. Naturally I presume there to be some differences between GNOME Terminal, Xterm and UXTerm. But a query that has, from time to time, confused me.
It’s a minor little quirk, granted, and something few people will notice. I’ve often wondered why Ubuntu ships with several different terminal apps installed by default.
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