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showipatlogon

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Registered: 2020-09-01

Posts: 5

How to setup LxTerminal by default OpenBox.

Hello all !

I'm running ArchLinux with OpenBox.  I installed htop which appears in my openbox-menu, but when launched it wants xterm as supposed to lxterminal which is currently installed.

My workaround is to create a symlink xterm pointing to lxterminal, but that's ugly.

I've read that it may be possible to set up my default terminal into my menu.xml file, for openbox but can't find the right code to make it happen.

my exo-preferred-applications installed shows lxterminal.  doesn't make a difference.

Here's my htop.desktop file.  There's no mention in there to use xterm.

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Htop
Type=Application
Comment=Show System Processes
Terminal=true
Exec=htop
Icon=htop
Categories=ConsoleOnly;System;
GenericName=Process Viewer

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My $TERM shows xterm-256color.  Not sure if it's relevant.

Any help would be super appreciated.

Thx!

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: How to setup LxTerminal by default OpenBox.

How does the openbox menu call htop (what is in openbox menu.xml)?

How did you install openbox? How did you customize the menu?

showipatlogon

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Registered: 2020-09-01

Posts: 5

Re: How to setup LxTerminal by default OpenBox.

How does the openbox menu call htop (what is in openbox menu.xml)?

menu.xml:  https://pastebin.com/EC33vVs1

How did you install openbox? How did you customize the menu?

Installed Xorg, and Openbox.  Took the .config files from another distro (ArchBang 2012).  So I did customize the menu (well, copied it over).

... The openbox-menu applications.menu will kick in and load up htop.desktop.

Here's htop.desktop: https://pastebin.com/9byKPuh6

Thx !

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,678

Re: How to setup LxTerminal by default OpenBox.

<menu id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications" execute="openbox-menu applications.menu"/>

(ArchBang 2012) … (well, copied it over)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox#Menus
The generators will allow you to configure the VTE process.

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