I know we previously had issues where gnome-terminal could fail to work reliably under certain bad driver cases (it was the case for virtual machines for some time). I think these issues haven't been a problem for some time though.
+1 from me for removal. On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:34 AM Bryan Quigley <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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