> On my desktop machine, it seems like any time a GUI app needs to launch a > console app, the default is to launch it in an xterm window. But as I'm a > hardcore KDE user, I'd like to change that default to konsole. Wasn't able > to figure out where this setting is to override it, however. "set | grep > xterm" didn't turn up much of relevance, and I couldn't see any KDE setting > to override it either. Anyone know how to tweak this? It depends on a lot of things, including your DE. It sounds like you are using KDE; if you are true a hard-core KDE user, you are probably using KDE 4.x, in which case you can set it in systemsettings > default applications. Otherwise it's somewhere in kcontrol. In GNOME, it's something like "Preferred Applications". > So basically, this is a non-answer. I'm trying to say, that there's > probably no global way to do this without just symlinking xterm to > konsole 8) Right, there is no truly global way of doing this. In practice, though, this is really the purpose of a DE and you should be able to set it fairly easily. -- Leonid Grinberg