Re: Setting preferred applications

[Volker Wysk <post volker-wysk de>]

Am Sonntag, den 01.12.2019, 01:31 +0000 schrieb Tony Houghton:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 at 00:46, Volker Wysk <post volker-wysk de> wrote:
> > I've done:
> >
> > update-alternatives --set x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/xterm
> >
> > ... and the symbolic link in /etc/alternatives got changed. But
> > when I
> > do "open in terminal" in nautilus, then it's still the GNOME-
> > Terminal.
>
> I see; I didn't realise Nautilus still had that feature. I thought
> I'd just found a "hidden" option for this in dconf, but the schema
> for "org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal" says
> "DEPRECATED: This key is deprecated and ignored. The default terminal
> is handled in GIO." I Googled a bit more, and there are two problems:
> 1. GIO has a hardwired list of terminals to try. 2. Nautilus doesn't
> use GIO anyway; this feature is provided by a plugin which uses
> gnome-terminal's dbus interface and won't work with anything else.
>
> If you wanted to use Tilix instead, you're in luck, because that
> apparently provides a similar extension.

What is "GIO"...?

Bye
V.W.