default terminal emulator

nTia89 · 2012-04-12 17:10:17

hi to everybody,

i'm on openbox and if i launch sakura (through kupfer) i get executed it in xterm
despite i've installed sakura

so my question is: how can i set the default terminal emulator ???

thanks

Last edited by nTia89 (2012-04-14 12:17:01)

thisoldman · 2012-04-12 23:43:37

Does this help? http://live.gnome.org/Kupfer/FAQ#Why_do … mulator.3F

I think a possible solution for you might be included in the bug report linked from there.

nTia89 · 2012-04-13 17:40:54

hi, this solve my problem with kupfer

but going forward, there is a flag or something similar, such as $EDITOR in bash , for terminal emulator ????

bohoomil · 2012-04-13 19:09:11

This.

nTia89 · 2012-04-13 19:46:46

thanks, this i meaning.

SOLVED, rather, double solved

tomk · 2012-04-13 19:53:02

FYI you don't use the $TERM variable to specify the "default terminal emulator" - that variable is set by the terminal app that you decide to use.

nTia89 · 2012-04-13 19:54:17

tomk wrote:

FYI you don't use the $TERM variable to specify the "default terminal emulator" - that variable is set by the terminal app that you decide to use.

what ?

Gcool · 2012-04-13 20:51:23

The $TERM variable will be set by whatever terminal application you decide to use. If you're for example doing some stuff in xterm, the $TERM variable will be "xterm", in urxvt it'll be "rxvt-unicode" etc.

Issue a "echo $TERM" in said terminals and you'll see what we mean.

nTia89 · 2012-04-14 12:16:52

i'm confused ----

in sajura $TERM is xterm
and
if i export $TERM='sakura' many application return an error

thisoldman · 2012-04-14 12:48:39

TERM is a variable that is meant to be read by applications to determine the capabilities of the console or emulator. It does not determine which terminal app will be opened.

TERM is not a variable like EDITOR. Setting TERM, as you did creates errors for programs that depend on valid values from 'termcap' or 'terminfo'.

nTia89 · 2012-04-14 14:04:10

oh, yes, now i understand .....
so doesn't exist a variable that works as EDITOR

thisoldman · 2012-04-14 14:55:25

nTia89 wrote:

oh, yes, now i understand .....
so doesn't exist a variable that works as EDITOR

Correct.

npinkerton · 2016-01-24 22:10:44

I am having a similar issue.

When I try to launch htop (or any application that runs in a terminal) from my OpenBox menu (auto-generated by xdg-menu), I get an error stating "Failed to execute child process "xterm" (No such file or directory)"

I am using lxterminal as my terminal emulator, and do not have xterm installed (never have had xterm installed).

printenv | grep TERM

returns

TERM=xterm
TERMINAL=lxterminal

I have tried setting TERM=lxterminal in /etc/environment and tried running

env TERM=lxterminal

But neither of those did anything.

What am I missing?

WorMzy · 2016-01-24 22:46:39

*sigh*

The majority of this topic is people explaining that you shouldn't manually set $TERM, so what were you expecting "TERM=lxterminal" to accomplish?

It doesn't look like nTia89 found a way to set the default terminal in kupfer, but I imagine that you would have to edit one of kupfer's config files. I will leave this topic open in case they want to share their solution (if they found one), but please avoid bumping really old topics, such as this one, in the future.

npinkerton · 2016-01-24 22:59:48

WorMzy wrote:

*sigh*
The majority of this topic is people explaining that you shouldn't manually set $TERM, so what were you expecting "TERM=lxterminal" to accomplish?

Well, there was a link to the wiki page about setting environment variables, and the OP said that is solved his problem... so I tried it... it didn't work, so I read on, and saw the posts about why that shouldn't be manually set... after reading the whole thread, I didn't find anything that sollved my issue, so I thought I would add my question, rather than starting a new thread about the same problem.

And I included the information about the TERM environment variable, because it seems odd to me that it is set to a terminal emulator that I don't have installed, and have never had installed.

My apologies.

Should I start a new thread?

Last edited by npinkerton (2016-01-24 23:05:26)

Trilby · 2016-01-24 23:06:24

npinkerton wrote:

Should I start a new thread?

Yes. Your issue has nothing to do with this thread. You are not using Kupfer.

Closed.

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