Change default terminal in CLDX?

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1

If I type…

$ echo $TERM

I get…

$ xterm

How do I change the default from xterm to the xfce4-terminal?

Thanks!

2

Hello,

Just in a terminal launch

exo-preferred-applications

to obtain that :
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications

Thanks

XKomodor | Julien

3

Its already set to xfce terminal in there. I have an application that fails and tries to start up the license diagnostics but it cannot find xterm so it exits. Is there a more comprehensive way to make it use xfce term instead of xterm?

Thanks for your help Julien!

4

Hello,

Effectively this is another problem …

In my CLDX, x11-terms/xterm is not installed, try that in a terminal :

export TERM=xfce4-terminal

and restart your application.

But what is the application crashing ?

Thanks

XKomodor | Julien

5

Why do you need a variable TERM?

6

The program does not actually crash - it just stops and waits for xterm to start. I tried exporting TERM as you suggested but it made no difference. Maybe it is calling xterm specifically. I emerged xterm and it works but I’d much rather use xfce4-terminal. Is there a way to do that?

~Thanks

Julien DAL wrote:

Hello,

Effectively this is another problem …

In my CLDX, x11-terms/xterm is not installed, try that in a terminal :
[…]
and restart your application.

But what is the application crashing ?

Thanks

XKomodor | Julien

7

What kind of program is needed xterm?