set debian alternatives for x-terminal-emulator

[josephholsten]

• [x] I am on the latest Hyper.app version

• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Ubuntu/xenial (affects all debian distributions)

• Hyper.app version: 1.4.7

• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: n/a

• Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on Mac OS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere): n/a

• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Is Vanilla

Issue

many terminals update debian alternatives for /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator to point to themselves. Hyper should do this in its debian packaging, per https://debian-administration.org/article/91/Using_the_Debian_alternatives_system

This requires the package to run

update-alternatives --install /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator hyper /opt/Hyper/hyper 100

This would allow users could run:

update-alternatives --set x-terminal-emulator /opt/Hyper/hyper

[josephholsten]

btw, the workaround is just to run that first command:

update-alternatives --install /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator hyper /opt/Hyper/hyper 100

[iamandrewluca]

If solution above does not work, you can force it manually.

sudo ln -sf $(which hyper) /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator

[aschrab]

Besides installing the alternative during the package installation, it should also be removed if and when the package is uninstalled. With that, the alternatives system would select one of the other alternatives as the preferred one if Hyper had been selected previously.

It's the lack support for this in the removal process that leaves me unsatisfied with the work around mentioned in the first comment (which I'd done on my own before even searching the issues here). The second comment would likely leave the system in an even worse state.

[mymedia2]

Please do not do this until you implement -e and -T options as required by Debian policy, §11.8.3 or you break the system. Any other programs expect these options to be working.