08-09-2014, 08:48 AM
I'm happy enough using the terminal (having started with DOS) even though my knowledge of the 'command set' is not very broad. That said, I find the different terminals and way they are referred to somewhat bewildering. For example:
I open a terminal using the default ctrl+alt+t and a get an instance of lxterminal with a 'Command Line' title bar.
I decided to change mine to just say 'Terminal' by editing the shortcut and see it is referred to as TerminalEmulator which I believe is the xfce reference to the default program for this task, like 'WebBrowser'.
However, if I execute 'x-terminal-emulator' from the terminal i just opened I get another instance of lxterminal, with window title lxterminal.
If I execute lxterm I get an instance of 'uxterm' which looks like the 'raw' xterminal.
All very confusing (at least to me!) and I wonder if things couldn't be tidied up somehow?
Paul
I open a terminal using the default ctrl+alt+t and a get an instance of lxterminal with a 'Command Line' title bar.
I decided to change mine to just say 'Terminal' by editing the shortcut and see it is referred to as TerminalEmulator which I believe is the xfce reference to the default program for this task, like 'WebBrowser'.
However, if I execute 'x-terminal-emulator' from the terminal i just opened I get another instance of lxterminal, with window title lxterminal.
If I execute lxterm I get an instance of 'uxterm' which looks like the 'raw' xterminal.
All very confusing (at least to me!) and I wonder if things couldn't be tidied up somehow?
Paul