I was wondering how I can go back to using the GNOME Terminal as my default terminal in Ubuntu rather than having Terminator as my default. Also, I do not want to uninstall Terminator, I just don't want to have it as my default one.
Ubuntu – How to change the default terminal to GNOME Terminal rather than Terminator
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Ubuntu 13.04: (in case you came here via google)
You can't change the terminal app used anymore.
Details:
nautilus-open-terminal uses GAppInfo to launch the terminal process, which uses a hard coded list of terminal emulators: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gio/gdesktopappinfo.c#n1106
Solution:
- Remove gnome-terminal:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal - Symlink terminator to gnome-terminal:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/terminator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Use `chsh` to change shell
You can use chsh to change your default shell. Running this command will ask for complete path of the shell.
You can also run
chsh -s <path_to_shell>
to change the shell directly.
Change Terminator Preferences
You can also change the Terminator preferences directly.
- Open Terminator.
- Right Click on Terminator and select Preferences.
- Go to Profiles > Command.
- Check Run command as login shell, Run a custom command instead of my shell, and type in the address of the shell.
- Close the dialog box.
Best Answer
There are two ways to achieve this.
Updating the alternatives: For this run
and select the number corresponding to
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper. This will set GNOME terminal as the default entry underx-terminal-emulator. But this might change if some other new terminal is installed in future since that installation may edit default value forx-terminal-emulator.Setting GNOME terminal as default: For this you can run