Terminal v. XTerm

**meijin3** · June 6th, 2012

Okay, I use the regular terminal that came with Ubuntu but for some reason, I also have XTerm. Should I uninstall this or could I possibly need this over terminal?

**Frogs Hair** · June 6th, 2012

The Gnome Terminal, XTerm, and UXterm are all terminal emulators that run on the X window system which Ubuntu uses. I found one post that suggested XTerm is faster . The UXterm is/was used with HP Unix .

I have used XTerm on E17 but hadn't used UXterm until checking for updates while writing this. From what I can find they all do the same thing and are just different options for the user. Perhaps a hardcore terminal user could identify different features . They don't take up much space and I have just let them be .

**meijin3** · June 6th, 2012

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

The Gnome Terminal, XTerm, and UXterm are all terminal emulators that run on the X window system which Ubuntu uses. I found one post that suggested XTerm is faster . The UXterm is/was used with HP Unix .

I have used XTerm on E17 but hadn't used UXterm until checking for updates while writing this. From what I can find they all do the same thing and are just different options for the user. Perhaps a hardcore terminal user could identify different features . They don't take up much space and I have just let them be .

Thanks for the help, I think I will uninstall XTerm then

**Frogs Hair** · June 6th, 2012

If you don't want them visible open the main menu , select the system tools on the left pane
and remove the checks so they don't appear in dash.

**meijin3** · June 10th, 2012

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

If you don't want them visible open the main menu , select the system tools on the left pane
and remove the checks so they don't appear in dash.

I'm sorry, where is this?

**itcotbtoemik** · June 30th, 2012

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

The UXterm is/was used with HP Unix .

Probably not. There are two "uxterm" instances that I recall: (a) a very old
(mid-1990s) program for which no source was available, and (b) the shell
script used to configure xterm for UTF-8 encoding. Neither was specific
to HP-UX.

**sudodus** · June 30th, 2012

Originally Posted by meijin3

Thanks for the help, I think I will uninstall XTerm then

Keep it. It is rather small anyway, and if you read the man page

Code:

man xterm

you will find that it can do a lot of things (there are many more options than for example gnome-terminal). But there are some nice and modern properties of gnome-terminal, that are missing in xterm. So it can be nice to have both (or all).

**andrew.46** · June 30th, 2012

If you were interested in experimenting a little I would strongly recommend a look at sakura. Powerful and extremely lightweight. There are many others of course....