Setting terminator in Preferred Applications

Asked by Mariano Mara

Hi, first of all, congrats on the great job you guys are doing.

I'm not sure if this the right place to ask this but let's see if you can help me out:
I want Terminator to be started as my preferred terminal application and so I configured it at Gnome's Preferred Applications (System tab). However since I want it to start with -bm options I selected "Custom" and I completed the commands needed for this. The thing is that it does not work (it opens gnome-terminal) and when I open Preferred Applications again I see the normal gnome-terminal is back again as the default one. If I choose Terminal (no switchs possible) I get Terminal.

I guess you guys also have it as your preferred terminal application and so I need to know if you faced similar difficulties when trying to set it up and how you fix it (I think I can add the -b and -m switch in my .terminatorrc but I'm not sure which are the key words to use).

TIA
Mariano.

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Best Chris Jones (cmsj) said :
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I'm not exactly sure what the problem with GNOME's Preferred Applications is, but I have just pushed a patch to trunk which will allow you to put "borderless=True", "maximise=True" or "fullscreen=True" (or any sane combination thereof) into .terminatorrc.

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Mariano Mara (marplatense) said :
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Thanks Chris Jones, that solved my question.

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Mariano Mara (marplatense) said :
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You're a genius, man. That's better than playing around with Preferred Applications. Thanks a lot, I will try it right now.
A tiny last question: would you mind including "scrollbars=off"?

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Chris Jones (cmsj) said :
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If you set "scrollbar_position=hidden" you should be set :)
I've just pushed a small fix for this, so that if you do later right click on a terminal and show its scrollbar it will appear on the right and not on the left.

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Mariano Mara (marplatense) said :
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Thanks Chris, I downloaded the branch and replace my current version. Work as promised.