March 8, 2025

Make st the default terminal on GNU/Linux with AwesomeWM

I did not touch AwesomeWM’s configuration file rc.lua because I read that AwesomeWM uses x-terminal-emulator.

All I had to do was to update x-terminal-emulator by running:

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

assuming the path to st is /usr/local/bin/st/

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