Unable to set Terminator as default Terminal in Ubuntu with Cinnamon Desktop
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 from the official website and installed terminator using APT and It worked! Ctrl+Alt+T started terminator.
Then I installed cinnamon desktop, rebooted and Ctrl+Alt+T came up with the default terminal, not with terminator.
I changed the priority to higher than the default emulator with sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/terminator 60
, this also didn't work.
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
gives this table:
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/terminator 60 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper 40 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/terminator 60 manual mode
What am I doing wrong? Is cinnamon interfering here?
Solution 1:
Please enter the following in a terminal :
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec /usr/bin/terminator
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg "-x"
You might have to enter the following line as well
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec /usr/bin/terminator