Add instructions for making desktop environments run kitty via xdg-terminal-exec

https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec
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Kovid Goyal 2024-04-30 21:23:48 +05:30
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@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ particular desktop, but it should work for most major desktop environments.
# Update the paths to the kitty and its icon in the kitty desktop file(s)
sed -i "s|Icon=kitty|Icon=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
sed -i "s|Exec=kitty|Exec=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
# Make xdg-terminal-exec (and hence desktop environments that support it use kitty)
echo 'kitty.desktop' > ~/.config/xdg-terminals.list
.. note::
In :file:`kitty-open.desktop`, kitty is registered to handle some supported