How do I select a custom Terminal in Preferences?

I went to:

Change the default shell in Terminal on Mac - Apple Support


Changed the default terminal and pasted /Applications/Warp.app


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Nov 27, 2022 9:00 AM

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Posted on Nov 27, 2022 10:19 AM

Presumably seeking to default to the Warp terminal app.


That configuration setting shown is not a means to establish a replacement for Terminal.app, that’s a path to a shell command to execute when Terminal.app opens.


I don’t know of a supported means to change the default app used for Terminal. AFAIK there isn’t such a setting. There isn’t a default terminal app.


Closest to what you seem to seek here is changing which app is opened for certain file types; for .command, .term, etc., and changing the handler for URIs involving ssh, telnet, etc.


PS: might want to see whether the Vttest passes the emulation. Hopefully, the folks that wrote it tried that.

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Nov 27, 2022 10:19 AM in response to DCarlson93

Presumably seeking to default to the Warp terminal app.


That configuration setting shown is not a means to establish a replacement for Terminal.app, that’s a path to a shell command to execute when Terminal.app opens.


I don’t know of a supported means to change the default app used for Terminal. AFAIK there isn’t such a setting. There isn’t a default terminal app.


Closest to what you seem to seek here is changing which app is opened for certain file types; for .command, .term, etc., and changing the handler for URIs involving ssh, telnet, etc.


PS: might want to see whether the Vttest passes the emulation. Hopefully, the folks that wrote it tried that.

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