rofi-sensible-terminal(1)

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version 2.0.0 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 rofi-sensible-terminal(1) — the group-chat edition 💅

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for rofi-sensible-terminal and you're literally gonna understand it perfectly by the end, no cap ✨

🎀 NAME

rofi-sensible-terminal — launches $TERMINAL with fallbacks, fr fr 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS

rofi-sensible-terminal [arguments]

👑 DESCRIPTION

so the way that rofi-sensible-terminal works is: it gets invoked in the rofi default config to start a terminal. and this little wrapper script is lowkey necessary because there's genuinely no distribution-independent terminal launcher out there (i mean, Debian has x-terminal-emulator, but that's a Debian thing, yk?). distribution packagers are the ones responsible for shipping this script in a way that's appropriate for their distribution — that's their whole job, bestie 🫶

here's the iconic part: it tries to start one of the following, and YES the order matters, in that order:

  • $TERMINAL (okay important note: this is a non-standard variable 💀)
  • x-terminal-emulator
  • urxvt
  • rxvt
  • st
  • terminology
  • qterminal
  • Eterm
  • aterm
  • uxterm
  • xterm
  • roxterm
  • xfce4-terminal.wrapper
  • mate-terminal
  • lxterminal
  • konsole
  • alacritty
  • kitty
  • wezterm
  • foot

like it just goes down the list until something slays 🔥 periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO

  • rofi(1) — the main character herself 💜

🍓 AUTHORS

  • Dave Davenport and contributors 🧚
  • Copied script from i3: Michael Stapelberg and contributors
bestie heads up: the script only falls back through that list in order — so if your fave terminal isn't in there, it is not gonna get launched, no cap 🙈

and that's the whole thing, you ate it ✨ this was rofi-sensible-terminal(1) from the rofi manual, General Commands Manual — love u, go launch a terminal 💖🎀🦋

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