The gnome terminal works fine for me, but when I try to use aterm or eterm they just don't work. I enter a command, hit enter, and nothing happens! I can edit that line to my heart's content, but I can't execute anything. Anyone know what's wrong?

Exactly what do you mean by aterm, is it something related to virtual terminal or something like xterm?

can't help without useful information....say if you run aterm or eterm via a gnome-terminal do they terms dump any error messages back to the terminal you ran them from or such?

i am going to go out on a limb and just assume that when you do a "ls" or something that the text color is the same as the background color, or something closly related...when you open up aterm/xterm open it with the following:
aterm -bg black -fg white
you can just type that in a gnome-terminal for the sake that you say that it works as opposed to the others..

i could be way out in left field, but with the lack of info, this is what i assume...

Sorry for the lack of info, but I'm kinda digging for it too...I run aterm from a gnome launcher or terminal (same results), and I'm quite sure it's not a background issue, since after I hit enter I can still edit the command I had just typed. I also don't get a new prompt.

For the sake of simplicity I'm going to focus on aterm. I'm using aterm version 0.4.2, and it doesn't dump any error messages. I mean, it runs fine, it just won't accept any commands.

Another detail that may or may not be useful, I can run aterm commands with the -e command line option, I just can't run anything once I start the terminal up.

If anyone can tell me how to get any other useful information, or even what would be useful, I would be happy to dig it up.