UXTerm is XTerm with support to Unicode characters. The main difference between XTerm and Terminal is that the gnome-terminal has more features, while XTerm is minimalistic (though it has features that are’t in gnome-terminal, but they are more advanced).

What is Uxterm in Linux?

uxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program that invokes the latter program with the oqUXTermcq X resource class set. All arguments to uxterm are passed to xterm without processing; the -class and -u8 options should not be specified because they are used by the wrapper.

What is the default terminal in Ubuntu?

We will execute the commands below in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). Open the default terminal emulator on your Ubuntu by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. The standard terminal on our machine is the Gnome Terminal.