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Switching to a new default terminal breaks my desktop and panel shortcuts

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I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty. Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run from the terminal. Switching the default back fixes the issue, but I would like to keep using Ghostty as my default. I haven't tried anything described in this post, however This issue was described here and was only "fixed" by switching back. The only shortcut I really use is Neovim so I will use that as the example here: The following is a screenshot for the settings of the launcher Launcher settings When I run this launcher, a blank Ghostty terminal opens and I receive a popup titled Configuration Errors:
One or more configuration errors were found while loading the configuration. Please
  review the errors below and reload the configuration or ignore the erroneous lines.
nvim: invalid field
My current theory is that when I use the launcher, the command
nvim
is run in the terminal, as this replicates the behavior. Why this is happening, I have no idea. It could have to do with the way Ghostty is run as the default Terminal, perhaps its launcher is broken? (For reference this is my first week with Linux so go easy on me, but I had trouble installing Ghostty since there isn't an official version for the Testing version of Debian which is what Kali runs on right now. With much difficulty, I was able to do it using Snapd, so perhaps this is why it's all broken) Please let me know what other information may help, I apologize that I don't know what else may assist. Any and all help is appreciated, thank you for your time!
Asked by AudBid (7 rep)
Mar 9, 2025, 08:28 PM
Last activity: Mar 22, 2025, 09:32 PM