title: set alacritty as default terminal emulator on Linux Mint 20.2 Xfce
body: <p>I've built alacritty from source according to this <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-and-use-alacritty-terminal-emulator-in-linux/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">article</a>:</p>
  <p>Now I'm struggling with making it my default terminal emulator.</p>
  <p>a directory for alacritty on my machine is:</p>
  <pre><code>/home/master/alacritty
  </code></pre>
  <p>when I run:</p>
  <p><code>sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/alacritty 50</code></p>
  <p>and</p>
  <p><code>sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator</code></p>
  <p>I get to choose between:</p>
  <pre><code>Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  * 0            /home/master/alacritty            50        auto mode
    1            /home/master/alacritty            50        manual mode
    2            /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode
  </code></pre>
  <p>It doesn't matter if I choose either 0 or 1, when I try to launch <code>x-terminal-emulator</code> through my keyboard shortcut, I receive a following error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Failed to launch shortcut&quot;&lt;Super&gt;Return&quot;</p>
  <p>Failed to execute child process &quot;x-terminal-emulator&quot; (Permission denied)</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Any help to fix this would be much appreciated.</p>