** Also affects: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu Plucky)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu Plucky)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu Plucky)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu Plucky)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessandro Astone (aleasto)
** Changed in: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu Plucky)
Milestone: None => plucky-updates
** Changed in: xdg-terminal-exec (Ubuntu)
Milestone: plucky-updates => ubuntu-25.10
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2107326
Title:
Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 do not respect x-terminal-emulator settings
Status in xdg-terminal-exec package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in xdg-terminal-exec source package in Plucky:
In Progress
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
In previous Ubuntu versions I just set x-terminal-emulator alternative to
ghostty, and Gnome correctly launched the configured terminal with default
shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+T.
After upgrading the system to a 25.04, Gnome 48 seems to ignore this setting,
and launches default Gnome Terminal when shortcut is pressed.
That happens because Ubuntu Desktop 25.04 now uses `xdg-terminal-exec`
to configure the user's default terminal application, which is an
improvement over the previous `x-terminal-emulator` way (see the MIR
bug 2069308)
The user configuration is not migrated from x-terminal-emulator to
xdg-terminal-exec, so the user finds their default terminal reset to
the default GNOME Terminal.
[ Test Plan ]
1. Install Ubuntu Desktop 24.10 or prior
2. Change the default terminal through x-terminal-emulator
3. Ensure that Ctrl+Alt+T launches the configured terminal application
4. Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04
5. Install the xdg-terminal-exec update
5. Verify that Ctrl+Alt+T launches the same terminal application
[ Where problems could occur ]
This is implemented as a session-migration script.
The script is implemented with a defensive programming approach so that the
xdg-terminal-exec configuration is written if and only if the user had
previously changed the x-terminal-emulator config and did not already change
the xdg-terminal-exec config.
Due to an issue with GNOME Terminal being too excited about setting
itself as the default xdg-terminal-exec even before xdg-terminal-exec
was used for launching the terminal in Ubuntu, the configuration will
only be applied if both /usr/bin and $HOME live in filesystems which
support the file creation timestamp (not necessarily the same one).
[ Other info ]
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
Package: gnome-shell 48.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-15.15-generic 6.14.0
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 14 13:46:12 2025
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-28 (1082 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64
(20220419)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 48.1-1ubuntu3
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to plucky on 2025-04-11 (3 days ago)
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