[arch-general] How to change default terminal from xterm

[Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.]

one could still safely remove xterm though right?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> > On my desktop machine, it seems like any time a GUI app needs to launch a
> > console app, the default is to launch it in an xterm window.  But as I'm
> a
> > hardcore KDE user, I'd like to change that default to konsole. Wasn't
> able
> > to figure out where this setting is to override it, however.  "set | grep
> > xterm" didn't turn up much of relevance, and I couldn't see any KDE
> setting
> > to override it either.  Anyone know how to tweak this?
>
> It depends on a lot of things, including your DE. It sounds like you
> are using KDE;
> if you are true a hard-core KDE user, you are probably using KDE 4.x,
> in which case
> you can set it in systemsettings > default applications. Otherwise
> it's somewhere in kcontrol.
> In GNOME, it's something like "Preferred Applications".
>
> > So basically, this is a non-answer. I'm trying to say, that there's
> > probably no global way to do this without just symlinking xterm to
> > konsole 8)
>
> Right, there is no truly global way of doing this. In practice,
> though, this is really the purpose
> of a DE and you should be able to set it fairly easily.
>
> --
> Leonid Grinberg
>
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