Shell issues

[hsiangch_ong]

since linux could be "many" operating systems to some people.  there are many terminal emulators.  some of them friendlier than others.

sadly must go through a list of possible emulators.  as was already said.  it's not reliable on some systems using "xdg-open" or other gag.  for example if an user wants to use "thunar" file manager.  but didn't choose xfce desktop environment.  this is possible in eg. cinnamon.  since "nemo" is slow as a hog and has other performance issues.  such as its failure to mark the current position when "page up" and "page down" keys are used.  the "example" command to open a terminal for the current directory.  works on "thunar" in xfce.  but fails when "thunar" is used in a different desktop.

on kde "konsole" is the only acceptable choice.  start the search with that one.  then go through others like "gnome-terminal".  "xfce-terminal".  "mate-terminal".  "qterminal" this is the one for lxqt.  might have to go through others which are lesser known.  such as "rox-terminal" a good one which sadly needs to be compiled on some systems.

a few users have this monster:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/urxvt.7

note that on debian/ubuntu this is called "rxvt-unicode".

this might be enough:

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xdg-open /path/to/the/folder

if not, as i've said in place of "xdg-open".  will have to put down the name of a terminal emulator existing in the system.

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mate-terminal --working-directory=/path/to/the/folder

this is an example for mate desktop.

will need to provide the folder.  but usually this is the user's home.

i wanted to answer the question here.  but was trying to use "bash" command in various ways and failed.  it must be through a terminal emulator.