When I press Ctrl + Alt + T, Ubuntu 16.04 opens xterm and when I search for gnome-terminal nothing is found. I searched for terminal and the only 2 applications there are XTerm and UXTerm.
How do I get the gnome terminal back?
Ubuntu – I don’t seem to have the gnome-terminal
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why are there many terminals and what is the point of those specially gnome terminal and virtual terminal
xterm and gnome-terminal are simply two different kinds of "terminal emulators", i.e. they make it look like you are on a real terminal (=text mode linux), but are designed to work in a GUI environment. xterm is the classical X11 terminal, while gnome-terminal is Gnome's default terminal.
The difference, apart from visual appeal, is that gnome-terminal has many more features than xterm but also requires you to be running Gnome. There are many more terminals of this kind available: xfce4-terminal, lxde-terminal, etc., with different looks, different feature sets, different dependencies and different "weights" (i.e. how much RAM they consume).
The "virtual terminals" (Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F6) are "real" terminals, not terminal emulators. If your regular desktop (Gnome) is ever in trouble, or you are having problems booting, you can try switching to another virtual terminal so that you can log in and try to fix the problem (in text mode).
This is a real terminal, as larsmans pointed out:
you need to add dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd --all into ~/.xinitrc
or download scripts from followings
https://github.com/3togo/useful_bash_scripts/blob/master/fix_gnome_terminal_dbus_problem
Best Answer
Simply open any working terminal that you do have, and enter:
sudo apt-get install gnome-terminalYou should be good to go!
You can also see this thread
How to set custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal?
as to how to set a custom key command, so that
CTRL+ALT+topens the terminal or program you choose, specifically,gnome-terminal.So, for example, if you later choose to use
lily-termorxfce4-terminalor something else, you may also change that keyboard shortcut/ command to open that terminal emulator, instead. In addition, you may set other commands to open other programs, such assuper+eto open the file manager, orCTRL+ato open Audacity, etc, so long as those commands are not already in use.Good luck!