On 23 Apr, 13:17, Harishankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 15:11:21 Ben Kaplan wrote: > > I don't know about all Linux distros, but my Ubuntu machine (8.04 Beta), > > has the 'TERM' (xterm) and 'COLORTERM' (gnome-terminal) keys in os.environ. > > You might be able to use that to ensure that the terminal is installed, but > > you should probably look at a couple of other popular distros first to make > > sure that the key is there. > > This is set on Debian too. Thanks. I should be able to use this environment > variable on most Linux distributions, I suspect.
Here on RHEL 4, COLORTERM has an empty value. I suppose that the freedesktop.org standards should cover this kind of thing, and there are some scripts out there which attempt to provide cross-desktop support on Free Software desktops: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils Similarly, the desktop module should provide support for various desktop features, but opening command line windows or terminals isn't yet possible: http://www.python.org/pypi/desktop It'd be interesting to know if we could find out (or make up) reliable ways of opening the user's preferred terminal application. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
