> I've spent the last hour or so playing with Eterm again. I think a lot of > prejudices I had against it were due to the Debian package of it. Dunno > what's really up with it, but it misbehaves terribly if I install the > package from unstable, yet if I build it myself it works fine. It's slower > to start up by a measurable interval than aterm is, and gods know it uses > more RAM, but once it's up, it seems fine enough. >
It has a theme parser, handles its own menus, etc. This is on the order of xmms which is fairly simple just has a list of inputs and a list of output modules to handle them. However because it works without window manager support it must implement everything the window manager gives you -- movement, mouse handling, the title, etc. As for the Debian package of Eterm, perhaps you should look at debian/rules and see what options it compiles with as well as the diff.gz to see if anything was added/removed.
