Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 21:09:56 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> 2) OT: I don't use XFCE but isn't xfce4-terminal its default terminal?
>
> It is if task-xfce-desktop is installed (and recommends enabled):
>
>  Recommends: .... xfprint4, xfce4-terminal, ....
>
> Installing xfce4:
>
>  Depends: .... thunar (>= 1.2.0), xfce4-utils (>= 4.8.0), ....
>
> xfce4-utils has
>
>  Depends: .... libxfce4util4 (>= 4.3.99.2), xterm | x-terminal-emulator, ....

Thanks. I hadn't thought of checking this; sorry.

So if you install xfce4 rather than task-xfce-desktop as well as
xterm, xfce4-terminal isn't pulled in. I guess that there's a demand
for these kinds of complications but it seems OTT to me.