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
