diff --git a/home/linux/common/shell.nix b/home/linux/common/shell.nix
index ef2aa394..3c81ec62 100644
--- a/home/linux/common/shell.nix
+++ b/home/linux/common/shell.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ in rec {
     # set default applications
     BROWSER = "firefox";
     TERMINAL = "alacritty";
+    TERM = "xterm-256color";
 
     # enable scrolling in git diff
     DELTA_PAGER = "less -R";
diff --git a/home/linux/common/xdg.nix b/home/linux/common/xdg.nix
index fd3f36f2..577d595a 100644
--- a/home/linux/common/xdg.nix
+++ b/home/linux/common/xdg.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 {config, pkgs, ...}: 
 {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
+    xdg-utils  # provides cli tools such as `xdg-mime` `xdg-open`
     xdg-user-dirs
   ];
 
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
     #  ls /etc/profiles/per-user/ryan/share/applications/
     mimeApps = {
       enable = true;
-      associations.added = 
+      defaultApplications = 
         let
           browser = ["firefox.desktop"];
         in
diff --git a/modules/nixos/core-desktop.nix b/modules/nixos/core-desktop.nix
index 29aac0dd..b3aaf571 100644
--- a/modules/nixos/core-desktop.nix
+++ b/modules/nixos/core-desktop.nix
@@ -166,9 +166,15 @@
   xdg.portal = {
     enable = true;
     wlr.enable = true;
-    xdgOpenUsePortal = true;
+    # Sets environment variable NIXOS_XDG_OPEN_USE_PORTAL to 1
+    # This will make xdg-open use the portal to open programs,
+    # which resolves bugs involving programs opening inside FHS envs or with unexpected env vars set from wrappers.
+    # xdg-open is used by almost all programs to open a unknown file/uri
+    # alacritty as an example, it use xdg-open as default, but you can also custom this behavior
+    # and vscode has open like `External Uri Openers`
+    xdgOpenUsePortal = false;
     extraPortals = with pkgs; [
-      xdg-desktop-portal-wlr  # for wlroots based compositors
+      xdg-desktop-portal-wlr  # for wlroots based compositors(hyprland/sway)
       xdg-desktop-portal-gtk  # for gtk
       # xdg-desktop-portal-kde  # for kde
     ];