sensible-terminal-in-dir

#!/bin/bash

# First argument is the dir to start in. Remaining arguments will just be
# passed along to terminal.
cd "$1"
shift

# Figure out which terminal to use. As far as I know, neither sensible-terminal
# nor xdg-terminal actually exists, but just in case they do they seem like a
# better default than someing wm-specific. That said, i3-sensible-terminal has
# the advantage that it actually exists. As a fallback, use xterm, which pretty
# much everyone has.
for terminal in sensible-terminal xdg-terminal i3-sensible-terminal xterm; do
  type >/dev/null 2>&1 "$terminal" && break
done

"$terminal" "$@" &