How to set alacritty as default terminal?

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I’ve been using Alacritty since last year but I still like to use gnome files

Anyone knows how to set it so I can open the directory in Alacritty instead of the default terminal? all I’ve found is the update-alternatives which returns “command not found”

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I believe you can open dconf Editor and go to org > gnome > desktop > application > terminal and change gnome-terminal to the terminal of your choice.

You can do the same from command line with

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

Just be carefull and be sure you can restore the default.

First check:

Maybe there are better ways.

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Thanks, it didn’t change the Open in terminal but it did make it default