xterm?? it shows up in choice up sessions UNR

**black_ice=cream** · March 21st, 2010

i just removed xfce from synaptic and it worked perfectly but now "xterm" shows up in list of sessions, along with GNOME and failsafeGNOME. What is xterm?! Why did it appear after I removed xubuntu?

**thomasaaron** · March 22nd, 2010

I think it's just a terminal emulator for Xubuntu. (Just like Accessories > Terminal in UNR.)

Not sure why it didn't un-install when you removed xubuntu.

**snowpine** · March 22nd, 2010

xterm is the X windows system terminal. It has nothing to do with Xubuntu.

**HotShotDJ** · March 22nd, 2010

Originally Posted by black_ice=cream

What is xterm?! Why did it appear after I removed xubuntu?

Try this: http://www.google.com/search?q=xterm...ient=firefox-a

Also, I have always had an xterm option in the session menu and I've never installed xubuntu. I double checked before posting this, and lo and behold, there it was as one of the options -- and I've only ever had straight Ubuntu on this computer. My guess is that you only noticed it after trying Xubuntu.

**black_ice=cream** · March 22nd, 2010

would it just be a CLI if I booted into it?

**isantop** · March 23rd, 2010

I believe that the ubuntu-desktop package depends on xterm. Ditto for the UNR desktop package.

EDIT: Confirmed. running:

Code:

sudo apt-cache depends ubuntu-desktop | grep xterm

returns:

Code:

Depends: xterm

Same for package ubuntu-netbook-remix.

Originally Posted by black_ice=cream

would it just be a CLI if I booted into it?

No. If you log in to an xterm session from GDM, it will start a basic graphical session (without gnome) and open xterm in a window. (Try pressing alt-f2 and running "xterm").

You can use a CLI by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 at any time. You can get back to GNOME with Ctrl-Alt-F7.