On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It depends on a lot of things, including your DE. It sounds like you> 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?
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".
Right, there is no truly global way of doing this. In practice,
> 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)
though, this is really the purpose
of a DE and you should be able to set it fairly easily.
--
Leonid Grinberg
