How to set default terminal for terminator?

Question

Using Xubuntu.

I want the terminator to replace the default terminal. For example, when I right-click inside a folder and then select an open terminal, I would like Terminator to open instead of the standard one.

How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

Try inside the terminal

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

Select the desired terminal from the list of alternatives.

Answer 2

change Settings Manager → Preferred Applications → Utilities

Answer 3

Copy the following into your current terminal:

 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec /usr/bin/terminator gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg "-x" 

This modifies dconf to make the terminator the default program. You can also use dconf-editor (a GUI-based tool) to make changes to dconf, as another answer suggested. If you want to learn and learn more about this topic, this can help you.

Answer 4

open dconf editor and go to org> gnome> desktop> application> terminal and change gnome-terminal to terminator

Answer 5

devnull is correct;

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

works. See here and here , as well as some comments in here .

Answer 6

In xfce (for example, in Arch Linux) you can change the TerminalEmulator parameter:

  TerminalEmulator=xfce4-terminal 

to

 TerminalEmulator=custom-TerminalEmulator 

The next time you want to open a terminal window, xfce will ask you to choose an emulator. You can simply select /usr/bin/terminator .

System Defaults

 /etc/xdg/xfce4/helpers.rc 

User Default

 /home/USER/.config/xfce4 

Answer 7

The only way that worked for me was

1. Open nautilus or nemo as root user gksudo nautilus
2. Go to / usr / bin
3. Change the default name of your terminal to any other name for the example "orig_gnome-terminal"
4. rename your favorite terminal to "gnome-terminal"