hello everyone :slight_smile: noob here, i just want to change the default terminal. I was able to change the shortcut to launch my preferred terminal emulator in the i3 config but how do i change the default terminal for everything else? For example, when i’m on thunar and open a directory and th…

Also will need to change Mod + enter keybinding in ~/.config/i3/config

Just a question - does that lose you the drop-down that comes with xfce-terminal in 13 usage? No go for me :grin:

I really appreciate what you said, but i feel like this only solves it for it for thunar. if some other app had to launch a terminal, it will probably launch a different default terminal. I was hoping for something more global that affects the whole system, but it looks like i really just need to c…

[image] GreggO: I was hoping for something more global that affects the whole system, but it looks like i really just need to change this for every app that might need to launch the terminal Change this line in the default config in ~/.config/i3/config and set your prefered terminal applicati…

yep I just found out sorry for that :slightly_smiling_face:

That worked for me: I do not have a ~/.config/i3, so I added in ~/.config/xfce/helpers.rc: # ~/.config/xfce/helpers.rc TerminalEmulator=kitty When launching from Thunar or Mod + Enter I got an instance of kitty

Please do not necrodump old threads . Start a new one if you have any actual questions Also it does not look like you are using i3 at all so your hint will not work in case running i3wm

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