Change default gnome terminal

While the default gnome terminal works and gets the job done, i do prefer using a terminal like Blackbox, one that can be customized to be visually pleasing.

While i have been able to replace the default terminal behaviour with a tool like dconf-editor, i still struggle a fair amount changing the context menu in nautilus:

"Open in Terminal"

How can i open the blackbox terminal when i click Open in Terminal? Surely there's a way to do this..

I messed up (and its probably for the best).

I followed this, and after realising it wasn't working too well, i ended up getting rid of it and now i don't have an entry for Open in Terminal at all.

Trust the process..

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The problem might be because Blackbox is installed as a Flatpak. But following the instructions from that Nautilus extension, it should be possible to do it:

Install the Nautilus extension. For convenience I've downloaded the binary file from the releases page, and installed it:

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/nautilus-extension-any-terminal_0.6.0-1_all.deb 

You might get a warning message saying something like:

N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/zenzen/Downloads/nautilus-extension-any-terminal_0.6.0-1_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

But is safe to ignore. Then, just apply the change with the newly available settings provided by this package:

gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal terminal blackbox
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal keybindings '<Ctrl><Alt>t'
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal new-tab true
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal flatpak system


The trick is to not overcomplicate it :smiley:

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Wow that seemed incredibly easy. It worked straight away with those commands. I used dconf-editor to change those keys, so i don't know where i went wrong. But it works now, thanks for your help =D

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