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Default terminal? XFCE terminal launches.

Asked by Jon Vaughan

Hello,

In gnome-do I would like the gnome terminal to appear as a result of the terminal 'command' (i.e the Gnome Terminal plugin) but instead I get the xfce terminal.

I assumed this was because xfce was the default (as I am running an xfce session) but when I checked by:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

I find that the Gnome term is the default too.

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper 40 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper 40 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/koi8rxterm 20 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/lxterm 30 manual mode
4 /usr/bin/uxterm 20 manual mode
5 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper 40 manual mode
6 /usr/bin/xterm 20 manual mode

So is there a way I can change it please?

Thanks for any help!

Jon

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Jon Vaughan (jsvaughan) said : 		#1

Hmm interesting thing about this is that the code for the GNOME-terminal plugin executes:

Process.Start ("gnome-terminal", "-x " + command);

And if I do that from the command line, I do get a gnome terminal.

So, I guess when I type terminal in Do I'm not actually getting the gnome terminal plugin?

Investigating...

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Jon Vaughan (jsvaughan) said : 		#2

Ok, yes, that was right. I have uninstalled the xfce terminal and now typing terminal finds the Gnome terminal. So my question is really is there a way to change the priority of things that are named the same, or the search order, or force a selection, or something?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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mimooh (mimooh) said : 		#4

I would like to launch custom terminal. I use terminator as my default terminal in gnome, but gnome-do launches gnome-terminal. Looks like different terminals have different switches ("-x" mentioned here above) which complicates the actual Process.Start command, right?