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CLUSTER TERMINAL-EMULATOR-DESKTOP · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-08-03

Terminal launcher utilities

This cluster comprises 7 utilities that determine and launch a user's preferred terminal emulator on Linux/desktop environments, including wrappers for compatibility and KDE-specific integrations. Entries appear sporadically across 2021–2026, with no clear trend; the most recent dated entry is April 2026. All traction leaders (xdg-terminal-exec, alacritty-wrapper, ktermlaunch) show zero stars, indicating no significant user adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2021: 1AUG 2021: 1NOV 2021: 1JAN 2022: 1MAY 2024: 1DEC 2024: 1APR 2026: 1
JUL 2021APR 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 7 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01xdg-terminal-exec0★2 moliveopen sourceSpecification and launcher that determines which terminal emulator to use when starting terminal-based desktop applications.
  2. 02alacritty-wrapper0★5 moliveopen sourceCompatibility wrapper that makes a terminal emulator appear as a different standard terminal so existing applications accept it.
  3. 03ktermlaunch0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop utility that launches the preferred terminal emulator based on KDE settings.
  4. 04xdg-terminal-exec-mkhl0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLauncher that determines which terminal emulator to open when starting terminal-based desktop applications on Linux.
  5. 05dbus-term-launcher0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceWrapper utility that launches terminal emulators through a desktop Terminal intent API.
  6. 06xdgterm0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line launcher that opens a user's preferred terminal emulator application.
  7. 07myterm0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility to launch the user's preferred terminal emulator.

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