Warp Terminal

The warp terminal, in the settings menu

I think we should Should know that warp terminal is rust and has a ton of features. One the main selling point is that it includes an LLM to help make queries.

I downloaded the terminal from Dave's link or it can be downloaded from The official Website. For the Debian package, you can install it using this line

Installing the terminal

dpkg -i warp-terminal_0.2025.02.26.08.02.stable.02_amd64.deb

We can check if the software has been installed using this line. If it returns /usr/bin/warp-terminal you’re good to go.

which warp-terminal

Adding the terminal to the list of terminals

We can the add warp to the list of terminal emulators that Debian recogizes. Just you know, I always use Kali Linux as my main OS

This command adds /usr/bin/warp-terminal to the list of altenatives, with a specific order priority of 100, to overide any other terminal.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/warp-terminal 100

update-alternatives --install ... is a setup step to register Warp Terminal as an option

Setting the dafault terminal

After that, we can now configure the system to use Warp when x-terminal-emulator is called. By running this command, It will list all the installed terminals, where we can now choose which terminal that we want to use as the default

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

This is a list of the terminals installed in my system

We can also use sudo update-alternatives --set x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/warp-terminal to directly set it as the dafault terminal.

In KDE, the default terminal is konsole, that is what what we get as the deafult by running the terminal shortcut ctrl + alt + T. We can change this in the settings, by assigning warp to this shortcut.

x-terminal-emulator

x-terminal-emulator is not a program itself, but rather it is a symbolic link. IF you run x-terminal-emulator, it will launch the default set terminal emulator.

In many linux setups, pressing Ctrl + Alt + T executes x-terminal-emulator, which follows the symbolic link to the default terminal’s executable file and launches it.