[gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

[James]

Ok,

So, as a old fart, I got tired of KDE and never really liked gnome.
I have found new life in LXDE; spartan, but learning and document
how things work on gentoo, is hopefully something I have to only
do once.

I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly setup. One thing I miss
is feature rich tabbed terminal session. On my old rig,
the tabs where customizable to show current dir or rename manually.
When I would "ssh" into a remote system, the IP address was prominently
displayed in the tab header; essential for managing tons of remote
devices.

Im currently I launch "lxterminal" from my
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file. I think I need to upgrade the
lxterminal with another feature
rich, multitab terminal session. lxterminals does not remember or keep
my tabs, or the contents (working dir) either. 


One last problem is my lxtermnal session do not remember their previous
screen location or size (geometry) so they just all pop up as the
default size in the middle of the screen. I tend to think that lxde/openbox
has a config file somewhere to set the screen locations/sizes but
it may also be related to the features offered by the "*xterm" ?

discussion and suggestions are most welcome.

One note of motivation: I now have a computational resource, I have not
experienced in a very long time. RAM.  I canrun mulitple web browsers
with dozens of windows open and dozens of resource hungry applications
and databases, with tons of ram (~50%) to spare, all because I dumped
KDE. If you run KDE, you do not realize what a pig it has become, until
to go back to one of these feature rich, user controlled
desktop/workstations. I would encourage any and all without tons of 
free ram, to ditch KDE (dunno about gnome).......


sincerely,
James