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Changing Default Terminal to Alacritty in XFCE4

First install dpkg from your package manager

go to directory

cd /usr/local/bin

Run the command

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/alacritty 50
  • If that didn't work
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/local/bin/alacritty 50

To change again or see the changes

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