Comments on: Set the Default Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu Linux

By: jkorkean

jkorkean — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:58:08 +0000

You can do this also with user level privileges from:
System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications

I switched mine to konsole because you can change the default character encoding for it with user level privileges.

jgg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:06:11 +0000

“$ sudo update-alternatives �config x-terminal-emulator”

should be

“$ sudo update-alternatives �-config x-terminal-emulator”

If you had two dashes there originally, I apologize. It looks like one.

acantos — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:01:53 +0000

this really worked on my asus eee. i set mine to konsole. i’m a noob and don’t know the differences between terminal emulators.

thanks for this tip.