How to set the Gnome Default Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | Linux Today

How to set the Gnome Default Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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Karim Buzdar
Aug 14, 2018

A terminal emulator is an application used to run bash commands, work with files, communicate with other computers, perform administrative tasks and configurations, etc., all in textual form. This tutorial will show you how to replace the default Gnome Terminal Emulator with Xterm.

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Karim Buzdar

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