Nautilus-open-terminal to open xfterm4 instead of xterm

I have installed in nautilus and nautilus-open-terminal in xfce4 on Arch. It opens xterm which does not have good font and appearance. How can I change the setup so that xfterm4 opens rather than xterm. I have tried arch wiki and google and though there are some posts but no clear solution. I can adjust the xterm font but it lasts only for one session. Any help will be appreciated.

I am not sure if I have been able to define the problem clearly. The 'nautilus-open-terminal' package adds to nautilus a menu item (under File) 'open in terminal' which opens a terminal in the folder being viewed in nautilus (rather than opening a terminal from launcher, which will be opened in the home folder). However, the terminal being opened is xterm and I want to change it to xfterm4. How can I manage this? Thanks for your help.

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Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about that. Only solution now would be to patch GLib itself.
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Port the terminal launching to GAppInfo
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