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asdfiex

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From: Eastern Europe

Registered: 2015-12-15

Posts: 71

[SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

I like having a system as lean as possible due the fact I use kinda-like tablet CPU and a low hard disk space.
I removed succesfully LxTerminal and configured smoothly XTerm to look somehow nicer, feeling blissful.
As I found out, UXTerm can use more characters because of UTF-8 encoding. Never gonna start it so I was thinking to throw it away.
Ok...

which uxterm
/usr/bin/uxterm

But...

sudo pacman -Rns uxterm 
error: target not found: uxterm

pacsearch command cannot find it either.

UXTerm it'a a XTerm component or why I can't get rid of it this way? Others way of doing it?
I'm not very accomplished just hiding the icon from System Tools...

Last edited by asdfiex (2016-01-29 15:23:50)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

To find which package uxterm belongs to, use:

$ pacman -Qo uxterm

It is indeed a part of the xterm package. To remove it, you'll also have to get rid of xterm.

Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 94

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

That "/usr/bin/uxterm" is just a shell script which refers to "/usr/bin/xterm" - 115 lines of code and about 4 KiB on your HDD/SSD, I guess it's a part of the "xterm" package... And it seems to me, that there is actually little point in removing that.
P.S. Here you can view the content of your "/usr/bin/uxterm": http://wklej.org/id/1923361/

asdfiex

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From: Eastern Europe

Registered: 2015-12-15

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

Nice info. But what about getting rid of it by rebuilding XTerm from source code? It is possible? If affirmative, how hard can it be?

Last edited by asdfiex (2016-01-29 09:36:51)

x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

Have you tried rebuilding it yourself? How hard it is depends on how comfortable you are with compiling and packaging stuff. Why you would even bother wasting your energy for such a thing is another issue.

Here's xterm's PKGBUILD for your reference: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ages/xterm

If there is a configure switch for that, give it a try. Else you can delete uxterm inside the package function.

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

If what Hwiparam says is correct, then recompiling is pointless. Just add the script (and it's desktop entry) to the NoExtract array in pacman.conf

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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

I'm not very accomplished just hiding the icon from System Tools...

This suggests that you are running some kind of a desktop environment with lots of GUI tools. While I also seek to make my system as lean as possible, I find it awkward that you would want to keep the DE, but then again remove negligible parts of something that supports UTF-8 (which is always a good thing).

I know this does not solve the problem at hand, but we're not just here for answering questions, but also giving advices.

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asdfiex

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From: Eastern Europe

Registered: 2015-12-15

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to remove UXTerm

Yeah, you're right. Actually got some spare time and wondering why not hang out, listenin' to some fancy music, chilling and doing this on the road...
Sometimes I can be very stubborn... Damn, 4 KiB - so little ... I have 500 GiB hard disk space but never seen to be enough...

Better I'll watch some film, or putting an eye on another new stuff here on the system. I'm kinda pretty new to Arch. Thank you for your fast answers, guys!