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    Nautilus script to open terminal. Change which terminal?

    I installed the package nautilus-open-terminal which allows me to open a terminal by right-clicking inside the Nautilus window and clicking on "Open Terminal."
    What I want to know is, how can I change which terminal it opens? I would like it to open Terminator, but I think it's opening xterm.

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    Re: Nautilus script to open terminal. Change which terminal?

    I've found two solutions:
    1) Remove gnome-terminal and symlink terminator to gnome-terminal
    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo ln -s /usr/bin/terminator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
    2) Install nautilus-actions and configure new script for Terminator

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    Re: Nautilus script to open terminal. Change which terminal?

    I am sure you could have done what you wantrd by changing settings in Preferred Applications, but it may depend on which DE you are using.

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    Re: Nautilus script to open terminal. Change which terminal?

    Quote Originally Posted by azgrel View Post
    I've found two solutions:
    1) Remove gnome-terminal and symlink terminator to gnome-terminal
    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo ln -s /usr/bin/terminator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
    2) Install nautilus-actions and configure new script for Terminator
    I think it would be better not to remove gnome-terminal. You can just rename the program and create a symbolic link to a new terminal just to be safe.

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    Re: Nautilus script to open terminal. Change which terminal?

    Edit I use nemo as my file manager and this method works
    but appears not to work when using nautilus.
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    Reinstall gnome-terminal, remove created links and set terminator as the default x-terminal-emulator in alternatives...
    Code:
    sudo update-alternatives --set x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/terminator
    To reset back to gnome-terminal use...
    Code:
    sudo update-alternatives --set x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
    Last edited by CantankRus; September 7th, 2014 at 11:59 PM.

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