I know what x-terminal-emulator
is and does, but I don't understand why there isn't exist a special manual page for it instead to be redirected to the manual page of gnome-terminal
. I would like to see a manual page explaining what x-terminal-emulator
exactly does and in that page a reference to man gnome-terminal
.
Is this correct (if yes, then why, for example, the output of man dir
doesn't return the output of man ls
)? It is there a good motivation behind this fact?
Best Answer
x-terminal-emulator
is a virtual package. The terminal emulator is configured by Debian's alternative system.On Ubuntu you can easily follow this symlink construction, e.g. for gnome-terminal:
Now regarding the man pages,
update-alternatives
also links the man page ofgnome-terminal
tox-terminal-emulator
as explained in theupdate-alternatives
manual:Source