How does one change the terminal that Gnome Files uses when opening a directory in terminal using “Open in Terminal”? I’m trying to change the default to foot.

All my searching has led to

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

  Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        auto mode
* 1            /usr/bin/foot                     20        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/footclient               10        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/koi8rxterm               20        manual mode
  5            /usr/bin/lxterm                   30        manual mode
  6            /usr/bin/uxterm                   20        manual mode
  7            /usr/bin/xterm                    20        manual mode

which I can select foot. But Gnome Files does not seem to respect this.

I’ve also tried directly editing

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec foot

where the default exec option is x-terminal-emulator. This also does not work.

  • M. Orange@beehaw.org
    3·
    3 months ago

    There’s no GNOME-supported way to do it, but there is this Nautilus extension allowing you to open any terminal (appropriately called nautilus-open-any-terminal).

    Fun fact: the ability to open GNOME Terminal from Nautilus is also an extension.

  • nyek@lemmy.zip
    1·
    3 months ago

    “Open in terminal” is a functionality provided by a plugin for Gnome Files that is installed with a package manager. As far as I am aware, there is one alternative plugin that provides “Open in Tilix”. This means it is not easily user configurable.