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I've built alacritty from source according to this article:

Now I'm struggling with making it my default terminal emulator.

a directory for alacritty on my machine is:

/home/master/alacritty

when I run:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/alacritty 50

and

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

I get to choose between:

Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
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* 0            /home/master/alacritty            50        auto mode
  1            /home/master/alacritty            50        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode

It doesn't matter if I choose either 0 or 1, when I try to launch x-terminal-emulator through my keyboard shortcut, I receive a following error:

Failed to launch shortcut"<Super>Return"

Failed to execute child process "x-terminal-emulator" (Permission denied)

Any help to fix this would be much appreciated.

punkuotukas
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I just had the same problem and the guide that you used indicates that the entry register is located on this directory (in case that you didn't change it):

/usr/local/bin

so you need to run the following command with that directory:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/local/bin/alacritty 50

after this it should set alacritty as default automatically and auto mode, you can check it with:

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

then to be able to open alacritty with the shortcut, in my case I just had to write this commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec /usr/local/bin/alacritty
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg "-x"

this thread helped me in the last part Hope it works for you as well!

Vlad
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