How to change my default terminal to GNOME Terminal rather than Terminator?

Solution 1:

There are two ways to achieve this.

1. Updating the alternatives: For this run

   sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
   

   and select the number corresponding to /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper. This will set GNOME terminal as the default entry under x-terminal-emulator. But this might change if some other new terminal is installed in future since that installation may edit default value for x-terminal-emulator.
   
   

2. Setting GNOME terminal as default: For this you can run

   gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec 'gnome-terminal'