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Re: How does Emacs select the "-nw" terminal
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: How does Emacs select the "-nw" terminal |
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Sat, 15 May 2021 15:56:06 +0700 |
On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 14:33, <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
> The background of my question:
> When I open the context menu of a file in my Xfce filemanager Thunar
> the "Open with..." sub-context-menu offers me "Emacs (GUI)" and "Emacs
> (Terminal)".
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> The later opens emacs in a simple (and ugly) xterm.
> The entry in that context menu referes to a .desktop-file
> (/usr/share/applications/emacs-term.desktop) with the line
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> "Exec=/usr/bin/emacs -nw %F"
> xterm is not the default terminal. The default is
> "/usr/bin/terminator". I checked that via "update-alternatives --config
> x-terminal-emulator.
Xfce has a different notion of “the” default terminal. See
‘xfce4-settings-manager’, Preferred Applications, Utilities tab.