diff --git a/conf/i3/config b/conf/i3/config
index 90993773..570b403a 100644
--- a/conf/i3/config
+++ b/conf/i3/config
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ 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 $mod +d exec --no-startup-id j4-dmenu-desktop --display-binary --no-generic --dmenu="rofi -dmenu -i" --term=$TERMINAL
+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