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There is quite a choice for N8x0 when it comes to terminal apps, yet with N900 we are stuck with the stock one. While very good (use it often and it is practical/functional) it lacks in few areas.
Main problem: One pixel border around the screen - getting 80x25 is impossible (79x25 is the closest it gets), some apps will display using only part of the screen with smaller font settings, some won't. Using smaller font is straining on the eyes though.
You can control geometry only through font type/size - why no setcol/setrows? This would help with apps that require certain setting.
With the recent inflow of awesome text based games (most roguelikes thanks to AapoRantalainen) it would really be great to use them easily to their full potential, taking whole screen and less straining on the eyes. There are quite a few open source terminal apps out there, though hildonizing them is probably not an easy task. Maybe osso-xterm could get updated?

MRXVT passed the test. BUG known, focus problems when returning to open session,FIX lock/unlock phone.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/mrxvt/download

Settings for 80x25 full screen attachment 1 (rename to .mrxvtrc and place in /home/user/)
Font thanks to Addison attachment 2

I posted this for you some time back, but sadly, no responses from anyone.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...2&postcount=32

By the way, Roxterm rocks!

Stable. Super fast and responsive. Tons and tons of stuff to customize including GTK coloring.

You can even quick launch anything once it starts.

I would push hard for that app if possible.

PUTTY on the older tablet was horrible.

For me, nothing will beat Roxterm.

Best of luck on your request!

Thanks mate. I am currently considering a dirty fix that would display the missing column out of bounds, it usually contains little to no information at all. Not sure if this would be in fact a 'quick fix' though :/

I've had problems with Xkbd, the virtual touch screen keyboard, on getting it exactly, to the pixel, of where I needed it to be.

The dirty fix solution for me was adding one more key on the keyboard and having that displayed off the screen.

Props for thinking outside the box, so to speak.

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...

There's also this you might want to take a quick peek at.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=439104&postcount=3

Honestly though, someone needs to recompile libvte and remove that pixel border you seem to hate so dearly.

Hey szopin, would you like me to upload all of what Roxterm comes with and see if it will work on your end?

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work for you to be honest.

I think it's packaged in three places.
/usr/bin
/home/user
/user/share

Of course there's also the desktop icon as well.

Just let me know.

skip the icon, tell me what settings you use to run this beast
EDIT: just to make clear, kbd mapping is perfect, color/geometry settings are what YOU make it, dream coming through

is mrxvt roxterm?

No, they're completely two different but much better alternatives to Xterm.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/mrxvt

Mrxvt is very impressive but it has a rather steep learning curve if you want everything to be just right.