How to configure Nemo's right-click "Open in Terminal" to launch "gnome-terminal"

Question

I realize the default of the Nemo's right-click "Open in Terminal" is to launch "gnome-terminal", however, my installation is opening "xfce4-terminal" instead.

A while back when "gnome-terminal" was broken, I installed "xfce4-terminal" as an alternative. I configured the system-wide defaults to call "xfce4-terminal" for the terminal.

After the issue with Gnome-terminal was resolved, I moved the system-wide defaults back to Gnome-terminal. Nautilus starting using Gnome-terminal again, however Nemo continues to only launch "xfce4-terminal".

I uninstalled "xfce4-terminal" then the "Open in a Terminal" feature of Nemo stopped working.

In attempts to resolve this issue I have done the following:

• ReInstalled Ubuntu 16.04
• Purged and reinstalled Nemo

Nemo still will only launch "xfce4-terminal". It appears to be a problem with in my home folder's Nemo configuration or some other per user cache.

Creating a new user, and Nemo properly launches "Gnome-Terminal".

Can someone help me with where to check and fix Nemo's functionality in my '/home/username` settings.

Is there some type of editible configuration to check what happens when clicking on the "Open in Terminal" function?

Answer 1

Google brought me here, so I'm reviving this thread in hope of saving at least one person from a few unnecessary headaches.

I'm using Debian and the suggestion from L. D. James here didn't work for me. So I took a look at Nemo's source code, and on line 132 of nemo-global-preferences.c I found that the (upstream) config schema is the following:

org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal

I'm using Nemo as a substitute for Nautilus, and since I'm using Gnome3 instead of Cinnamon, for me this schema didn't even exist. So, I created it with the following command. After issuing this command, the 'Open in Terminal' action opens gnome-shell, in the correct directory:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-shell 

Just replace gnome-shell in the command with whatever terminal you'd like to use. Ex: for gnome-terminal, use:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal

And for terminator (sudo apt install terminator) use:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec terminator

Answer 2

Nemo uses the gsettings configuration. This restored the intended behavior:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal

On Ubuntu it's different for some reason:

$ gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal

Answer 3

On Xubuntu 18.10 this helps me (I use sakura as a terminal):

$ gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec sakura

Answer 4

In case you want not to replace, but to add "Open in Terminator" in your right-click menu,

1. go to /home/$USER/.local/share/nemo/actions folder,

2. create open_in_terminator.nemo_action file:

    [Nemo Action]
   
    Name=Open in Terminator
    Comment=Open the 'terminator' terminal in the selected folder
    Exec=terminator --working-directory="%F"
    Icon-Name=terminator
    Selection=any
    Extensions=dir;
   

Don't forget the double quotes ("") around the "%F" or else the "Open in Terminator" action won't work from within any folder which has spaces in its path.

References:

1. Blog post: "Add Right-Click Commands in Linux Mint / Ubuntu", by Angelos Kyritsis
2. Sample Nemo right-click menu action file from /usr/share/nemo/actions/sample.nemo_action

Answer 5

Find and Open "Preferred Application" in the main menu.

Choose "Terminator" in the "Preferred Application" dialog.

This will set terminator as the default terminal app for the system.

1. You can use "CTRL + ALT + T" to open terminal.
2. RClick and open context menu in Nemo File Manager in any directory and open the terminal from there.

These will all open Terminator or the default terminal that you've set.

Answer 6

First set the default X terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

Then you can set the default terminal for cinnamon to this x-terminal-emulator (Nemo is the Cinnamon file manager, so it takes its settings from Cinnamon config):

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec x-terminal-emulator

Now your desktop environment (eg Gnome) and Cinnamon applications will all use the same terminal, and if you use the first command to change the X terminal in the future, your Cinnamon applications should also use that new terminal.

Answer 7

Having wandered into this old thread, I can add my config, as of 2020. The settings for my system were almost identical:

org.cinnamon.desktop.applications.terminal

I do not have the default- part.

Answer 8

Nemo determines your default terminal by querying gsettings.

To locate all schemas related to "terminal", I did this:

gsettings list-schemas | grep terminal

For me, that listed these schemas:

org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal
org.mate.applications-terminal
org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal

Since Nemo is the default file manager of the cinnamon desktop, the first schema (above) is the one we're interested in.

You can determine the current settings of a schema using gsettings list-recursively schemaPathGoesHere. For example:

gsettings list-recursively org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal

In my case, this revealed that Nemo is currently using the x-terminal-emulator:

org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec 'x-terminal-emulator'

To set this to Gnome Terminal (instead), use gsettings set schemaGoesHere exec 'terminalLaunchCommandGoesHere'. Like this:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec 'gnome-terminal'