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TheStroyer

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[SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

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

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Re: [SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

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

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

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

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TheStroyer

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Re: [SOLVED] Change default terminal in i3

Thanks that solves the problem