Caffeine Peter Colijn
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October 05, 2010 (link)
Over-engineered

How do you change your default terminal emulator in debian (-based distros)?

sudo update-alternatives --install \
  /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/xterm 50 \
  --slave \
  /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz x-terminal-emulator.1.gz \
  /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz

Wow, could they have made it any more complicated to say "stop giving me this GNOME terminal garbage and give me a working terminal instead?"

As extra proof that this is just waaaay too complicated, I had to put it in an old-skool blog post rather than on the new-fangled twitwagon, because it won't fit there.

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