Updated cachyos-hyprland-noctalia due to CachyOS’s installer no longer installing paru.
Formerly, I used the xdg-terminal-exec AUR package to enable the default Alacritty terminal emulator to execute from an expanded number of places. My thinking was that I could use that to use micro as the default text editor since you’d be able to run it everywhere it was needed.
The concept was always a little flawed and I was considering changing to a GUI text editor anyway. No more paru just forces my hand a bit since I will not install an AUR helper as part of the installation script. Just doesn’t seem right to enable a system in that way. It should be an explicit choice of the user.
So I’ve added gedit as the default text editor instead, and I believe I will do the same for cachyos-hyprland as well. It’s GNOME’s default text editor, a bit more feature rich than Xfce’s mousepad, not quite as good as KDE Plasma’s kate but as I’ve noted elsewhere, that one comes with a colony of Plasma dependencies that I’d like to avoid installing by default.
If you already plan on ditching thunar for dolphin, then I’d absolutely suggest switching out gedit for kate.
On that note, I will be finding a place to add instructions on how to change the install script to your liking so there’s no need for any software swapping post-install.