How to change the default terminal for executing .desktop files?

Wangchi

I've been trying to execute vim with alacritty as default. I have alacritty set as my default terminal emulator already and my vim.desktop I exec=vim %Fuse instead exec=alacritty -e vim %F. The problem is that when I open the file, it first executes the command in the gnome terminal and then starts vim the right way, the problem is that the gnome terminal stays open. I have also tried creating the script:

#!/bin/bash
alacritty -e vim & disown | exit

This doesn't work at all. I don't know what to do and can't find anything online. Thanks in advance!

Is it possible to change the default terminal for running Exec=commands ? This way, it works just fine just by writingExec=vim %F

Wangchi

Teacher helped me figure out what was going on, thanks! The problem is my .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Vim
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text files
Comment[es]=Edita archivos de texto
TryExec=vim
Exec=alacritty -e vim %F
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Keywords=Text;editor;
Icon=gvim
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;

There are arguments Terminal=true. This is because it executes the command Exec=in the terminal and then opens the terminal to execute the command. If Terminal=falsethis option is set, it will prevent any terminal from being opened, and only execute the command without opening the terminal.

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