Super + Enter won't open Kitty Terminal

[captainvera]

Hey there! I have an (almost) fresh install of ubuntu 22.04 LTS with regolith 3.2 installed.

Everything is working great except when I changed my default terminal from gnome-terminal to kitty.

I did update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator as suggested on regolith instructions but now nothing happens when I do super + enter.

Other keybinds still work great and I can launch kitty from ilia (super + space + kitty) but it's annoying that the shortcut doesn't work.

When I do super + enter nothing happens, how can I debug this?

[ingsme]

This sounds like a problem with update-alternatives.

• Try starting x-terminal-emulator from command line
• Check output of update-alternatives --query x-terminal-emulator

[captainvera]

Thank you!!

Your hints led me to the fact that x-terminal-emulator was returning command not found which, after some digging and understanding all the symlinks it uses, pointed me to the fact that this was pointing to kitty.app and not to the binary 🤦‍♂️

After correcting this it is now working seamlessly!

For anyone that stumbles upon this, this sets it up correctly:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator `which kitty` 50
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator