using sed and pstree to display the type of terminal being used

Question

I\'ve been trying to display the type of terminal being used as the name only. For instance if I was using konsole it would display konsole. So far I\'ve been using this command

Answer 1

curTerm=$(update-alternatives --query x-terminal-emulator | grep '^Best:')
curTerm=${curTerm##*/}

printf "%s\n" "$curTerm"

And the result is

terminator

Of course it can be different.
Now you can use $curTerm variable in your sed command.

But I am not sure if this is going to work properly with symlinks.