[SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

TheStroyer · 2018-08-28 20:12:25

When i open a terminal in i3 with the hotkey, it opens xterm by default. I want to use gnome-terminal as my standard terminal. i3 uses i3-sensible-terminal for choosing the right terminal. The man page of i3-sensible-terminal says I have to change the variable $TERMINAL to the terminal I want to use. The problem is that I don't know how to exactly change that variable. I use lxdm as my login screen and zsh as my terminal. I tried putting 'export $TERMINAL=gnome-terminal' in both my ~/.profile and ~/.zprofile, but it both didn't change $TERMINAL after a reboot. How do i automatically change $TERMINAL when i login to my computer?

Last edited by TheStroyer (2019-10-16 10:55:04)

jasonwryan · 2018-08-28 20:40:28

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM#Configuration

Moving to NC...

Trilby · 2018-08-28 21:22:01

This seems to be a ridiculously roundabout way to get what you want. Just specify gnome terminal in your i3 config instead of i3-sensible-terminal:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3 … l_emulator

TheStroyer · 2018-08-29 14:20:53

Thanks that solves the problem

CodeSova · 2025-11-30 06:40:54

There is a use case. for egg. when u start htop via your application launcher and you don't want it do open in xterm

set $Terminal terminal
bindsym $mod+Return exec $Terminal

Last edited by CodeSova (2025-11-30 06:47:58)

ewaller · 2025-11-30 17:29:32

Using this opportunity to close this old thread. CodeSova, welcome to the forums but watch the age of threads -- some are quite old.

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#1 2018-08-28 20:12:25

[SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

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