diff --git a/conf/i3/config b/conf/i3/config
index f99c5038..3c1107ba 100644
--- a/conf/i3/config
+++ b/conf/i3/config
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 set $mod Mod4
 
 # Stop repeating the same thing everywhere!
-set $MyPreferredTerminal xfce4-terminal
+set $TERMINAL xfce4-terminal
 
 # Font for window titles. Will also be used by the bar unless a different
 # font is used in the bar {} block below.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ floating_modifier $mod
 
 # start a terminal
 #bindsym $mod+Return exec i3-sensible-terminal
-bindsym $mod+Return exec $MyPreferredTerminal
+bindsym $mod+Return exec $TERMINAL
 # kill focused window
 bindsym $mod+Shift+q kill
 
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ bindsym $mod+Shift+q kill
 # wrapper around dmenu supporting .desktop (flatpak)
 #bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop
 # j4-dmenu-desktop is supposedly more than 25 times faster
-bindsym $mod +d exec --no-startup-id j4-dmenu-desktop --display-binary --no-generic --dmenu="rofi -dmenu -i" --term=$MyPreferredTerminal
+bindsym $mod +d exec --no-startup-id j4-dmenu-desktop --display-binary --no-generic --dmenu="rofi -dmenu -i" --term=$TERMINAL
 
 # for j4-dmenu-desktop daemon mode (unreleased version)
 # https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop/pull/80/commits/87f6b8b03dabbd83ad0f5d889a75da1b99cdff03
-#exec --no-startup-id j4-dmenu-desktop --display-binary --no-generic --dmenu="rofi -dmenu -i" --term=$MyPreferredTerminal --wait-on=~/.config/j4ddfifo
+#exec --no-startup-id j4-dmenu-desktop --display-binary --no-generic --dmenu="rofi -dmenu -i" --term=$TERMINAL --wait-on=~/.config/j4ddfifo
 #bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id echo > ~/.config/j4ddfifo
 
 # change focus