Remove default app: xterm?

Marcos Alano marcoshalano at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 16:39:40 UTC 2017


I agree with that. GNOME Terminal is fine and we always have Ctrl-Alt-F{1-6}.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Bryan Quigley
<bryan.quigley at canonical.com> wrote:
> Xterm takes up two menu items (xterm and uxterm) and doesn't provide
> any more functionality then gnome-terminal.  In an installed setup,
> those two menu items make gnome-shell have 3 pages instead of 2 in my
> testing.
>
> The comment in seeds for adding it is "Provide a backup terminal and
> complete X env.":
>
> Backup terminal - I don't think we really need a backup and we don't
> do it for other apps.   There is always a VT and if someone wants to
> use a GUI they can install another terminal with gnome-software.
>
> complete X env.  -  Especially with us considering wayland, if it
> actually pulls in anything (that other packages don't) then we want to
> bring it in explicitly.
>
> Thanks!
> Bryan
>
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