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

[David Rosenstrauch]

Leonid Grinberg 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

Bummer!  It really is a pain having my apps (MySQL Administrator, in 
this case) open up an xterm with its tiny little fonts.

I'll see what I can do about setting this for both KDE and GNOME, and 
then have to just hope for the best.

Thanks,

DR