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scofi16

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Registered: 2016-02-13

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Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

Hi

I installed xfce4-terminal because the gnome-terminal doesn't have transparency option. When i'm at desktop and want to open terminal from context menu i want to open xfce4-terminal.
I tried command below but it's not working:
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec xfce4-terminal

Is it possible to somehow change the default terminal to xfce4-terminal?

WFV

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From: ☭USSA⛧⭒⭒⭒⭒

Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 288

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

what does </usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.gschema.xml>   show for the default terminal? gnome-terminal or xfce4-terminal?

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fantab

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Registered: 2011-06-07

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

I use LXterminal on gnome. I have uninstalled gnome-terminal. And LXterminal is default now.

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scofi16

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Registered: 2016-02-13

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

File org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.gschema.xml shows gnome-terminal. I changed to xfce4-terminal and reboot but gnome-terminal is still opening from context menu. Then i tried to uninstall gnome-terminal but when i click open terminal in context menu nothing happend so i installed gnome-terminal back.

Last edited by scofi16 (2016-02-16 12:10:38)

WFV

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From: ☭USSA⛧⭒⭒⭒⭒

Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 288

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

File org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.gschema.xml shows gnome-terminal. I changed to xfce4-terminal and reboot but gnome-terminal is still opening from context menu. Then i tried to uninstall gnome-terminal but when i click open terminal in context menu nothing happend so i installed gnome-terminal back.

is there a "Preferred Applications" in the Settings Manager? if so you should be able to change it there

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scofi16

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Registered: 2016-02-13

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

In System settings->System info i can set default programs only for WWW,  e-mail, calendar, music, videos and photo

WFV

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From: ☭USSA⛧⭒⭒⭒⭒

Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 288

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

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

and choose from the list, might work, although I can't seem to get it to work in Ubuntu it kicks right back to Gnome however, if you right click in the terminal and go to Profiles/Profile Preferences, you can select "transparent" for the background and it should remain transparent.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

WFV, giving Debian specific commands here isn't going to help.

WFV

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From: ☭USSA⛧⭒⭒⭒⭒

Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 288

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

WFV, giving Debian specific commands here isn't going to help.

Apologies folks, thanks Scimmia, I didn't know that (but should, doh! as usually look for equivalents)

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phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

That context menu entry in Nautilus is part of gnome-terminal (gnome-terminal includes it as a Nautilus extension) and therefore hardcoded to open gnome-terminal. Unfortunately Gnome does not offer any option to change the default.

What I did as a workaround was to install nautilus-actions and configure my own "Open in terminal..." entry for nautilus to open my terminal of choice. After that I uninstalled gnome-terminal to get rid of the duplicate context menu entry.

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

Just to give you another option: Try using Terminix [1] as a terminal and uninstall gnome-terminal. It's pretty new software and still considered beta, but it brings its own Nautilus context menu entry. I found the latest version 0.50 to be reasonable stable.

[1] Available in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terminix/

VxMxPx

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2012-12-22

Posts: 12

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

Try this: uninstall `gnome-terminal`, install `nautilus-open-terminal` and set default terminal to xfce4-terminal. This approach works with xterm.

cribbageSTARSHIP

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Registered: 2015-07-31

Posts: 21

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

What I did as a workaround was to install nautilus-actions and configure my own "Open in terminal..." entry for nautilus to open my terminal of choice. After that I uninstalled gnome-terminal to get rid of the duplicate context menu entry.

Can you elaborate on how set up the nautilus-actions to open the terminal in the correct location? I know if I put the command xfce4-terminal there it opens into my home dir, but I'd like the starting dir to be the folder I've right clicked.

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

Can you elaborate on how set up the nautilus-actions to open the terminal in the correct location? I know if I put the command xfce4-terminal there it opens into my home dir, but I'd like the starting dir to be the folder I've right clicked.

Actually I switched over to use Terminix, which provides it's own Nautilus open in terminal extension.

But just for getting that info how I set it up using nautilus-actions I re-installed it and looked at my configuration. I had added a new action named "Open in terminal" with the following settings:

1. Tab Action: check both "Display item in selection context menu" and "Display item in location context menu"
2. Tab Command: Path: "/usr/bin/terminator", Parameters: "--working-directory=%f", Working directory: "%f" (adapt this to the terminal you are actually using)
3. Mimetypes: Remove the * entry and add a new entry for inode/directory
4. I guess under Schemes you should limit this to file://, since the configuration in that way only works for local files. But I did not do that

I also had tried to get a proper configuration that will work with ssh / ftp, but never got it working

lah

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Registered: 2014-08-26

Posts: 28

Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

I just got same issue, as said VxMxPxv remove gnome-terminal, install nautilus-open-terminal and then create a symlink pointing to xfce-terminal

ln -s /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

without this symling, xterm opens, I've modified dconf gnome terminal settings, check default application, in all cases, xterm terminal was opened, not xfce4-terminal

fukawi2

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Change gnome-terminal to xfce4-terminal

lah, please do not necropost; a lot changes in Arch over nearly 18 months: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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