So the thing is I always have terminal windows open in X. A lot of people do this , if course - but I wanted to neaten things out a bit.
At the mo, I'm running xubuntu gutsy. I have 4 desktops, and one of them I want to be a permanent terminal windows with as little else as possible. I tried several apps for this:
- xterm wasn't spiffy enough - I love transparency!
- aterm and Eterm don't support utf8. I just couldn't get them to show my special characters like äöüß. Besides, Eterm was up to 3x slower than aterm when starting. aterm doesn't support borderless windows with Xfce, either
In the end, I used xfce4-terminal. It doesn't start as fast as xterm, but as it only gets started once per session that didn't concern me - it's still fast enough. Plus: I can deactivate borders, make it transparent, hide the scrollbar and make it fullscreen - so on desktop 4 there's absolutely nothing except for my terminal with my shaded desktop background. The other desktops look like normal X desktops so I don't scare anyone with my laptop.
When I was running kubuntu, I had konsole doing the same job with a similar configuration. I used tabs for different shells. xfce4-terminal supports this too, but finally I've gotten round to using screen which does a much nicer job. Pity it doesn't save sessions through reboots.
