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S.E. Mitchell

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Sep 8, 2025, 11:02:03 PMSep 8
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Does anyone routinely use a Linux terminal not in this list?

cool-retro-term
foot
gnome-terminal
kitty
konsole
lxterminal
mate-terminal
qterminal
terminator
tilix
xfce4-terminal
xterm

Harald Mezger

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Sep 9, 2025, 3:29:24 AMSep 9
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Dear Sammy,

My Linux experience is limited, but I'd say your list covers the most popular terminal emulators.

For a quick command line session, some users prefer drop-down versions like Guake or Yakuake, because 
they don't add a regular window to the desktop, but I doubt anyone would want to run an editor in them.

Hope you're having fun with the new keyboard options,
Harald


Carlo Hogeveen

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Sep 9, 2025, 4:54:00 AMSep 9
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Yes.
On any desktop system I just use the default/first terminal I am offered.
Which always turns out to be an icon named "Terminal".
In my case in Terminal the following command always returns "gnome-terminal-".
ps -p $(ps -o ppid= -p $$) -o comm=

Carlo
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S.E. Mitchell

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Sep 9, 2025, 5:31:37 AMSep 9
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>>Hope you're having fun with the new keyboard options,

Yes I am!
Frustrating and fun at the same time.
This is an area where Windows does a lot better in most cases.
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knud van eeden

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Sep 9, 2025, 4:43:37 PMSep 9
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1. These terminals are installed on my about 30 installed 
different Linux distributions

2. See also the attached terminaltype.csv

3. mostly with regard to frequency of installation:

a. gnome terminal: 11 of 31 or about 35%

b. KDE konsole: 6 of 31 or about 20%

c. xfce terminal: 4 of 31 or about 10%

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Knud van Eeden 

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J. David Boyd

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Sep 11, 2025, 8:33:48 AM (14 days ago) Sep 11
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On my WSL install of Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, the term is xterm-256color 

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J. David Boyd

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Sep 11, 2025, 8:35:20 AM (14 days ago) Sep 11
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Oops, never mind.  You're talking about the terminal application, not what it reports itself as in the $TERM variable.

knud van eeden

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Sep 11, 2025, 9:31:24 AM (14 days ago) Sep 11
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For completeness:

In Linux WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) Ubuntu 22.04, there is no single default terminal.

It depends on which application (e.g. cmd.exe, windows terminal exe, powershell.exe, tcc.exe, ...) you used to start WSL.

In WSL it typically runs inside Microsoft Windows conhost.exe (e.g. when WSL was started via JPSoft tcc.exe here)
otherwise e.g. windowsterminal.exe, ...

Typical output of typing $TERM on the WSL command line is then indeed

xterm-256color

or otherwise

xterm

Note: but this is probably more pointing to its compatibility (e.g. colors, ...) with the 'xterm' terminal program,
because I had to install xterm when earlier typing that word on the WSL command line, so xterm
is or should not be default present and installed and used.

with friendly greetings
Knud van Eeden

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