Some non-default terminals have got extra features like splitting window etc.
We can always use those terminals without uninstalling the original one but is there a way to remove the original one?
EDIT-Some comments say that it is not advisable to remove the gnome Terminal. What can be the repercussions?
Best Answer
I wouldn't remove it. Given it is the default terminal emulator for the Unity/Gnome desktop environment, there could be some obscure program/script that use it unconditionally and you'll have an error (probably two years from now when you didn't remember what can have caused it).
The preferred way is:
Install the new terminal emulator, for example
Set the
update-alternative
method to choose it:...and that should be it. If you have probelms, you can look here: How can I set default terminal used in Unity?
Notice however that there is a bug/misfeature of the underlying library that makes that all the things that use the "open in terminal" will not respect the selection above. The bug was reported and acknowledged in 2010, there is a patch available, but it's still here. I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix.
A system-wide workaround could be to remove the
gnome-terminal
binary and replace it with a link tox-terminal-emulator
--- should work most of the time...Alternatively, you you have in your
PATH
the$HOME/bin
directory before/usr/bin
(as everyone has, I suppose) you can simplyln -s /usr/bin/terminator $HOME/bin/
(no privileges required) and glib will happily use the link instead of the realgnome-terminal
.