[SOLVED] How to change default gnome terminal (terminal emulator)

dedligma37 · 2023-06-11 00:33:30

Greetings!

I am using Arch linux gnome and tried to change the default terminal to blackbox-terminal. I followed these instructions (I wrote /bin/blackbox in shells). The default terminal became blackbox, but after logout none of the terminals work. Now the terminal doesn't start in any way (it starts for a second and immediately disappears), TTY, after authorization, immediately restarts, giving some kind of blackbox related error (blinking very fast, I can't even take a picture to make out what it says). The only thing that works is ALT + F2. I read that the problem could be the language and the encoding. In locale-gen only en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, the rest is commented out. In Region & Language: Language - English, Formats - United States.

Does anyone know what this problem is and how to fix it?

Last edited by dedligma37 (2023-06-12 18:11:59)

Trilby · 2023-06-11 01:26:32

blackbox-terminal is a terminal emulator, not a shell! That's the problem. (And I'm pretty sure /bin/blackbox is a window manager!)

Undo those changes (chsh back to bash, then remove /bin/blackbox from /etc/shells) - you may need to log in to root to do so unless you still have an open shell session available.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-06-11 01:29:00)

dedligma37 · 2023-06-11 02:57:00

Oops, somehow I didn't consider that point.
In general, the problem was solved by creating a second user and changing the shell to /bin/bash on the main one. But then how to use the terminal emulator instead of a shell? So that, for example, I can open the terminal emulator through the context menu of a folder instead of the shell (sorry for not entirely accurate terminology, but I think the idea is clear)

Trilby · 2023-06-11 03:15:46

It used to be a gsettings option - but all references I can find say this is no longer the case, and recent versions of gnome don't seem to allow you to change the terminal (e.g., here and here).

But if you change your thread title to something like "change gnome default terminal" you'd more likely get the attention of those who might have the relevant experience.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-06-11 03:30:17)

dedligma37 · 2023-06-12 18:11:33

Ok, the problem is solved. I don't know how, but now I have two options in context menu: open in console and open in terminal. I hope if someone needs the same thing as me, this problem will also be solved like my

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#1 2023-06-11 00:33:30

[SOLVED] How to change default gnome terminal (terminal emulator)

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