mate-desktop/mate-terminal — Issue #1: update debian alternatives
Author: oz123
Created: 2012-01-21 10:33:14+00:00
State: open

When installing Mate-DE on debian, we need to include a in the post installation of the package the following command:
``` $update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/mate-terminal 5
```
This will allow the users (the less technically oriented of them ... ) to choose mate-terminal as the default terminal in the session.

This can be done by:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
There are 5 choices for the alternative x-terminal-emulator (providing /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/lxterm 30 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/koi8rxterm 20 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/lxterm 30 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/mate-terminal 5 manual mode
4 /usr/bin/uxterm 20 manual mode
5 /usr/bin/xterm 20 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/mate-terminal to provide /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator (x-terminal-emulator) in manual mode.

That last part should be included in the wiki or README file supplied with MATE-TERMINAL for Debian.

Cheers,
Oz