"Open Terminal" keyboard shortcut doesn't work in 19.10 after uninstalling Tilix

After installing Kitty and subsequently uninstalling Tilix, the keyboard shortcut for “Open Terminal” no longer works. I couldn’t find anywhere to update this via any of the preferences dialogs. Issuing sudo update-alternatives x-terminal-emulator says there’s only one alternative, and it’s Kitty. I’ve updated my default terminal via gsettings like so:

 gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec 'kitty'

Alas, still nothing. I even tried logging out and logging back in.

Leaving this here for posterity: you have to update the default for gnome not cinnamon. Should have had a closer look at the schema list, honestly. My bad.

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