find default terminal via dpkg

[justinmk]

see if we can query dpkg / update-alternatives for the preferred terminal, and/or one of gnome's things:

• gsettings (ubuntu 12+)
• gconf (deprecated)
• gnome-default-applications-properties
• gconf registry key: /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec

Another: configure "x-terminal-emulator" via galternatives

http://askubuntu.com/questions/72517/where-can-i-set-the-default-terminal-emulator

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70540/how-can-i-set-default-terminal-used

[justinmk]

Another possibility: XFCE's exo-open:

exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator

[justinmk]

When update-alternatives is updated, it looks like this:

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/terminator to provide /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator in auto mode

Then just call x-terminal-emulator to launch a terminal.

[gcollura]

Hi, thanks for this nice plugin. Could you please allow setting the default terminal to open with a global variable such as g:gtfo_default_terminal? (you could do the same with the default file manager too)

Thank you again and happy holidays!

[justinmk]

@random-cpp That's been requested before, so I will plan to add it in the next few days. Are you on linux/bsd? Is there a reason that you wouldn't want to use update-alternatives or some similar mechanism set your desktop's default terminal? That seems like a more elegant solution to me than setting it specifically in a Vim plugin.

[gcollura]

I'm on linux, but I'm using urxvt + zsh + tmux "standalone" (oh my zsh tmux plugin) so I'd need to set up a special configuration to make everything work..

[justinmk]

Fair enough. Thanks for the report!

[gcollura]

Thank you for your time!

[justinmk]

@gcollura setting a custom terminal is supported now. Example:

let g:gtfo#terminals = { 'unix' : 'rxvt-unicode -cd' }

See README.md for details.