With a MATE Panel item set to 'application in terminal'
I see xterm:
I want to change that to gnome-terminal (or mate-terminal in MATE)
asked Aug 30 '19 at 22:52
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It seems to be hardcoded somewhere to use GNOME Terminal.
The logic behind this seems to be the following: if GNOME Terminal is not found, then desktop-shortcut uses xterm as fallback.
We can simulate GNOME Terminal installation on MATE by using a hack - create symlink to MATE Terminal executable:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mate-terminal /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
and then run application with MATE Terminal attached.
Note: I have faced the same problem with one of my laptops, so I asked a question on Ubuntu MATE Community. It is great that upcoming Ubuntu MATE 19.10 is not affected by this problem.
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Ah good one! For my issue I needed
ln -sf /usr/bin/mate-terminal /usr/bin/xtermAnd yes, I see other good changes coming in 19.10. – Stephen Boston Aug 31 '19 at 14:37 -
1It is OK if you do not have
xtermpackage installed. Otherwise it is not recommended as/usr/bin/xtermwill be overwritten on next upgrade ofxtermpackage. You can try to removextermpackage withsudo apt-get remove xtermand then make symlink in/usr/local/bin(this folder is not maintained by APT). – N0rbert Aug 31 '19 at 14:40
Or, you can change the drop-down from "Application in Terminal" to just "Application" - and before htop provide the full path to the wanted XXXX-terminal as this:
"Name: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -e htop" (consult with man-page or help of the needed terminal application about the correct option format).
Even, maybe, with no change in the "Type" field ...
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1OK. My bad. I am using XFCE DE on Ubuntu 14.04. There's a default "Terminal" in "/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal" with this options : -x, --execute => Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal ; -e, --command=*htop* => Execute htop inside the Terminal ; -T, --title="Htop in GNME/MATE Terminal" => For setting the initial window title for the Terminal . – Jovan Ružić Aug 31 '19 at 18:09
