If you've never opened gnome-terminal, then xdg-terminal-exec does
prefer ptyxis even if both are instealled.

However, if you've ever opened gnome-terminal and no other terminal was
set as user-default, it will intrusively set itself as the user default
terminal. This choice will persist even now that we've changed the
system-wide default terminal to be ptyxis, because user-default has
priority over system-default.

We could use a session-migration script to undo the user-specific
changes done by gnome-terminal, but we wouldn't be able to distinguish
between the user explicitely setting gnome-terminal as their default
terminal from its Preferences window, and gnome-terminal settings itself
as the default terminal on startup because yes...

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  xdg-terminal-exec prefers gnome-terminal over ptyxis

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