Zippy might be if someone ported it to n900. Running emulation (easydebian) in order to run terminal (roxterm or such) makes it really hard on processor and memory.

Damion> I might have to give cross-compiling the src another go.

Please do, and just switch

#define VTE_PAD_WIDTH 0
and
#define VTE_PAD_HEIGHT 0

I know someone from the CSSU fixed greyed out chars to show up. If they could possibly allow switching the pixel-border off... I for one would be happy with what I got (still am, just being unable to take full control of the screen is a bit saddening).