Super + T won't launch Terminal

[Adrian Lanzafame]

Terminal shortcut not working. Have attempted changing the shortcut for terminal to something else and back again. Other application shortcuts are working.

[Jan Polášek (jandurek)]

It's not only about shortcut not working. There's something more happening under the hood. Every time you use that shortcut, a mysterious nameless process gets spawned and when you try that multiple times, it will result in 100% CPU utilization.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Probably a user-specific-alternatives bug

[svan001 (stephane-gronowski)]

Same for me, each time I do it, it use a little more CPU, but can't see which process is using it.
Also loging out doesn't solve the problem, only rebooting.

I use a french keyboard.

[dehein (dehein)]

For me the workaround was to use this command:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
and choose pantheon-terminal in the list.
Now it seems to work.

[Igor Bogoslavskyi (zabugr-gmail)]

Also affects me. The fix by @dehein seems to work for now.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

So here's what happens:
1) x-terminal-emulator gets called by Ctrl+Alt+T keybinding
2) x-terminal-emulator is a symlink controlled by Debian alternatives system and points to /usr/lib/user-specific-alternatives/user-specific-alternatives, which is a binary
3) /usr/lib/user-specific-alternatives/user-specific-alternatives reads the value of "org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec" from GSettings, and executes the string found therein. Currently it is "x-terminal-emulator", so user-specific-alternatives binary ends up calling itself and the entire thing loops (Go to step 1).

[J. Antonio Romero (nsdragon)]

That setting, by the way, currently has a notice that says "This key is deprecated and ignored" (at least when viewed in dconf-editor).

Also, the exec-arg setting doesn't seem to be used at all.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I can confirm that changing "org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec" fixes the problem.

While we're on the subject, we should change the shortcut to Super + T to keep with the theme of reserving ctrl shortcuts for apps

[Vlad (mesonoxianvlad)]

Before this was fixed i did dehein's fix (comment #5) and it worked.

However after the update, now the shortcut doesn't work any more.

How can I reset this and gain the keyboard shortcut function again?

Thanks!

[Joel Almeida (joelalmeidaptg)]

Just use Super + T instead of the old shortcut to open the terminal

[Torma András (lostra01-4)]

Installed fresh Freya, did #5 fix (MILLION THANKS), and now it works fine.

[Thomas Barandon (anapivirtua)]

Since some days now the issue seems fixed, Super + T open pantheon-terminal.