To resurrect this a little without useless 'bump':
If anyone is having "need certain geometry" issue for some app (or ssh connection) to run, try arm-compiled debian xterms (lxterm for example). There is quite a choice and after copying it from mounted .deb directory they run out of the box. Forget copy/paste (ctrl-c is not your friend here), but menus work. Sadly most have horrific keyboard mapping (ctrl-m for enter if all else fails) but this can be helped with xkbdconf. Still it would be nice to have hildon friendly fullscreen xterm...