Most questions tagged with virtual-terminal actually refer to virtual-console, the famous Linux feature. But some of them, such as this one, assume such GUI terminal emulators as gnome-terminal
and xterm
.
First, shouldn't the virtual-terminal tag be deprecated?
Second, where is the correct tag for programs like gnome-terminal
and xterm
?
Update: by the way, question tagged (virtual-console) have significant admixture (if not say pollution) of xterm
-like stuff. It appears that many users have no idea that virtual console is a thing completely different from terminal emulators.
virtual-console
a synonym ofvirtual-terminal
.console-tools
), but can be used for whatever that resembles a tty. Why should an unambiguous term redirect to an ambiguous phrase?