I am writing a Linux desktop application (written in Qt) in which I'd like to launch the user's preferred terminal. I am at a loss for a way to do this that would work across multiple distros: RHEL5, RHEL6, Fedora 13+, Ubuntu. I have used xdg-open, for example, to launch the user's file browser, web browser, etc, but I am at a loss for how to launch the correct terminal. For now, I have just resorted to always launching "xterm", but that is pretty lame. At one point, the xdg-terminal script looked promising (which I only found mentioned via Google), but none of the package managers seem to know about xdg-terminal on any of the aforementioned distros.
Any ideas? --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
