package with xterm

dschinn1001

How do I install package with xterm (command) in solus ?!
xterm as package seems here to be unknown (or it has different name ?).
Only meant as example - xterm in Ubuntu is here described ...

http://zoomadmin.com/HowToInstall/UbuntuPackage/xterm

dschinn1001

sorry, stupid question is this ... have overseen, that X-Window-System is not part of Solus. This would change the question a bit into this ...

How do I type in command-line a command for to open a new terminal window on Desktop ?
(Please not a shortcut.) - here is bash.

Staudey

X-Window-System is very much a part of Solus.
To open a new terminal window, if you're using Budgie or GNOME edition: gnome-terminal

Justin

If you're on MATE: mate-terminal and Plasma: konsole.

dschinn1001

TUVM for quick answer - is there no general command for x-believing terminal, no matter which windows-manager is installed ?! command xterm apparently does not exist ? What shall I do for to install command xterm ? In order to use like here

xterm
bash: xterm: command not found

Or is there something like "screen" - described here for Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Screen

Here is something described too

https://askubuntu.com/questions/401009/command-to-open-new-terminal-window-from-the-current-terminal

Staudey

dschinn1001

Or is there something like "screen" - described here for Ubuntu

Well, there is screen, in the repository

Here is something described too

The first answer on that page is again gnome-terminal, which I've mentioned above.
xdotool is also available in the repository.

What exactly are you trying to do, that needs to be agnostic of desktop environment and has to spawn a new terminal window?

dschinn1001

gnome-terminal would only work, when gnome is installed - not everybody has gnome.
to spawn a new terminal in general on desktop globally - independent from which windows-manager is installed -
would be then with

xterm
for example for remote diagnostic tool or for remote anti-malware-check ... whatever ...

kyrios

dschinn1001 gnome-terminal would only work, when gnome is installed

That's absolutely wrong. it's a GTK+ application just like any other GTK+ application and doesn't require Gnome at all to work (isn't it the default terminal on Budgie ?)

tomocafe

kyrios I think they mean that gnome-terminal would require many GNOME-related dependencies to be installed. Doing a eopkg info gnome-terminal, I was pleasantly surprised at how little it requires, though:

Dependencies        : libgtk-3 glib2 glibc libx11 nautilus-extension util-linux
                      libatk pango dconf libvte

tomocafe

I guess I'm also surprised that Solus doesn't have xterm, since I've grown used to it being on every other GNU/Linux system I've been on over the years, but note that Solus has a particular use model in mind:

Solus is an operating system that is designed for home computing.

i.e. not servers, headless setups, net installs, etc. Given that every image (Budgie, MATE, KDE) has a default terminal emulator, they expect you to use it.

That being said, there is rxvt-unicode in the repository, which is a lightweight terminal similar to xterm (but better IMHO). Once installed, you can open it with urxvt. (See man urxvt for details.)

And to answer this specific question:

is there no general command for x-believing terminal, no matter which windows-manager is installed ?!

There is: use x-terminal-emulator, which will open the default terminal application. (Either gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, or konsole on Solus). You can use this across most (if not all) GNU/Linux systems to just "give me a terminal!"

On my system:

$ readlink -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal