Lightweight alternative to Konsole?
 

Having re-dumped KDE due to responsiveness issues, I find myself clinging to Konsole. It has one feature which I love: the ability to create and switch between "tabs" (seperate terminal sessions in the same window) with simple key combinations. I am not aware of similar functionalty in the basic xterm -- so question 1) is: is there a way to achieve the same in xterm? Question 2) is: since loading Konsole means loading half of KDE, it is pretty resource intensive; is there a less bulky terminal program around which'll do it for me?

Thanks

The gnome-terminal supports tabs, and while I've never used Konsole, it seems to load relatively fast (not as quickly as aterm, but not so slow it angers me) and is a pretty nice all-around terminal. You might want to give that a try.

Eterm w/ Escreen enabled.

Look no further than http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ with http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ providing tab functionality of course. :D

I did not know their was a tab feature with konsole, that is cool. :-)

aterm or eterm

though i havent gotten eterm to work it looks pretty cool from screenshots

I like using Eterm just for fun. To be honest I only like it for the transparency and boarderlessness of it. It does look nice.

I like to use Konsole because you can cut and paste into it(practicality)

simplest: xterm

I used Eterm for a while, then switched to aterm...it provides much of the same functionality while using less resources and seems to be a bit simpler to configure.

xterm is indeed the simplest, but doesn't provide the groovy features like transparency and fading that you get from aterm.

I looked at aterm's website and through the man pages (although I'm a little tired) and I couldn't find anything about fading, could you describe how to use that and what it does? Also, is there a way to tint the window to a lighter color, say, instead of blue, light blue?

fading = when you put focus on another application, the contents of the aterm window will dim. If you do "aterm -fade 80" it will dim to 80% when you remove focus from aterm.

tinting would be done with -bg i think (background color) you can use hexidecimal or rgb colors with -bg