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How to set kitty as the default Terminal app in Gnome 50/Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
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Set kitty as the default Terminal app in Gnome 50/Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in a single command line:

sudo ln -s ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty /usr/bin/kitty~ && gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec kitty
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