From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How does Emacs select the "-nw" terminal
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 15:56:06 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8X-3=iv2Y1uU0kw_F0M7HRiDNKTVex3z98cPJ65rgMxjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FhxwF3bpSz6tmG@submission01.posteo.de>
On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 14:33, <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
> The background of my question:
> When I open the context menu of a file in my Xfce filemanager Thunar
> the "Open with..." sub-context-menu offers me "Emacs (GUI)" and "Emacs
> (Terminal)".
>
> The later opens emacs in a simple (and ugly) xterm.
> The entry in that context menu referes to a .desktop-file
> (/usr/share/applications/emacs-term.desktop) with the line
>
> "Exec=/usr/bin/emacs -nw %F"
> xterm is not the default terminal. The default is
> "/usr/bin/terminator". I checked that via "update-alternatives --config
> x-terminal-emulator.
Xfce has a different notion of “the” default terminal. See
‘xfce4-settings-manager’, Preferred Applications, Utilities tab.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-15 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-15 7:33 How does Emacs select the "-nw" terminal c.buhtz
2021-05-15 7:59 ` tomas
2021-05-15 19:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-15 8:56 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2021-05-15 21:11 ` c.buhtz
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