If you've never opened gnome-terminal, then xdg-terminal-exec does prefer ptyxis even if both are instealled.
However, if you've ever opened gnome-terminal and no other terminal was set as user-default, it will intrusively set itself as the user default terminal. This choice will persist even now that we've changed the system-wide default terminal to be ptyxis, because user-default has priority over system-default. We could use a session-migration script to undo the user-specific changes done by gnome-terminal, but we wouldn't be able to distinguish between the user explicitely setting gnome-terminal as their default terminal from its Preferences window, and gnome-terminal settings itself as the default terminal on startup because yes... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debcrafters packages, which is subscribed to xdg-terminal-exec in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2121943 Title: xdg-terminal-exec prefers gnome-terminal over ptyxis Status in xdg-terminal-exec package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: xdg-terminal-exec prefers gnome-terminal over ptyxis if both are installed. So if you've upgraded to Questing and have both terminals installed then Ctrl+Alt+T will launch the old terminal instead of the new one. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-terminal-exec/+bug/2121943/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
