> Don't know the answer, but I use ICE and prefer the "Gnome Terminal" GNOME Terminal is a nice terminal program, and it has more of the type of features that most users would appreciate than xterm, and so I can understand why you would prefer it, but as others have stated it does use more memory than xterm. The reason for this is because it is linked with gnome-libs. The way shared libraries work, is the first program that uses a shared library will load it into memory. Then any other programs that use that same library will use the copy of the library that is already loaded rather than loading a new copy. This means if GNOME is started (or any gnome program is running) then gnome-terminal will use very little additional memory. Most of that memory (as you said) will go to the scrollback buffer. If no other gnome programs are running, then GNOME Terminal will have to load gnome-libs which will make it load slower than other terminal programs on slower machines.
I think a common misconception about xterm though, is that it is a leaner than the others. xterm has _a lot_ of features. Much, much more than any other terminal emulator out there. It also has been actively developed much longer than the other projects. Next time you are running xterm try holding down the control-key and pressing any of your three mouse buttons (they all have different menus). xterm is the only terminal emulator that does nearly perfect vt100, vt102, vt220, and vt320 emulation. It even supports tektronic graphics! Currently there are some patches floating around to provide better emulation for gnome-terminal, but they haven't been added to CVS yet. Of course, most people don't need perfect emulation or tektronic graphics or media copy print controller support or any of the other weird things that xterm provides, but a lot of people do prefer the modern widget set, and preference dialogs and other nice things about other terminals. So to me there is no clear better term. Just different ones. As a side note though, gnome-libs isn't as bloated as many people make it out to be and the difference between gnome-terminal and xterm is going to be pretty small. For people who /really/ care about memory footprint, they should look into rxvt, which took the xterm code base and removed most of the features that 95% of people will never use. (but also lacks some of the features that 95% of people like from other terms). --Ray