[Mate] falls back to xterm instead of using mate-terminal

[oberon-manjaro]

I just noticed that manjaro-architect cannot be launched in the Mate live-session because mate tries to launch xterm, which isn't installed by default.
Strange thing is that mate-terminal is indeed set as the default.
Is this a bug in the Mate Desktop?
The only way I can currently seem to find to launch setup with the launcher seems to use

terminal=false
Exec=mate-terminal -e 'sudo /usr/bin/setup'

For the already build 17.1.8 ISO I will just patch this up in the chroot, but somehow it would be good to find a proper solution for this.
Is there a way to export $TERM ? My understanding is that this is kind of a no-go ... @Chrysostomus ?
@Ste74 @philmmanjaro

[oberon-manjaro]

Right. So this seems to be an issue upstream is aware of, yet hasn't really managed to fix since 2012, hrrm.
mate-desktop/mate-panel#57
I guess we'll have to use some kind of a duct-tape solution with the architect-launcher... 😜

[Ste74]

Maybe i have forgot this issue .. Good to see you already found it .. 😉

Mate terminal is a strange app .. if you see in desktop-settings > script you see a little bash script to change the default color of terminal .. is the only way it to work because if i add the key into the .override file nothing change .. really odd 😏

[oberon-manjaro]

For now I have added a workaround in the desktop-items script.