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I'm an average home user, but still sometimes use terminal for simple tasks. When I type "terminal" in unity, it offers me three choices - but what`s the difference? I hate always choosing randomly and thinking about what I did.
Terminal is, in Ubuntu default software, the gnome-terminal. XTerm is... . UXTerm is XTerm with support to Unicode characters.
The main difference between XTerm and Terminal is that the gnome-terminal has more features, while XTerm is minimalistic (though it has features that are't in gnome-terminal, but they are more advanced).
If you are using Ubuntu, you should also have gnome-terminal installed. For Kubuntu the default terminal is konsole, and for Lubuntu is lxterminal.
All three are good choices.
To be Desktop Environment independent as much as possible, I would choose
lxterminal.
xterm, and uxterm are good but they use ugly looking fonts, and pose some problems in regards to keystrokes (see ).
The default is "terminal", which is gnome-terminal.
You can also summon one with a hotkey ctrl-alt-T
Gnome-terminal is generally more of a resource hog than xterm and rxvt.
Also, gnome-terminal's install size is generally around ten times larger than
By default, urxvt uses a feature called fast scrolling. This causes the
terminal emulator to not always update the window when the content changes. If
a program is outputting a significant amount of data to the terminal emulator,
fast scrolling can result in a noticeable performance boost. Xterm has this
option disabled by default, but you can enable it by putting XTerm*fastScroll:
True in your .Xresources file. Gnome-terminal does not seem to have this
Gnome-terminal has profiles that allow you to define and quickly switch between
configurations.
For an average user, xterm and uxterm are pretty useless.
I personally rely on gnome-terminal even for advanced usage. I simply remove the other two, so I don't be bothered with them showing in my apps search.
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