aterm

aterm is a highly configurable and lightweight terminal emulator. Some features include pseudo transparency with tinting, a configurable scrollbar, and fully customizable fonts. Generally speaking, aterm has more cool non-essential features while xterm has more practical features. In particular, xterm doesn't have transparency. At the same time, aterm's lack of practical features contributes to a smaller memory footprint than xterm has.

Not all window managers honor a graphical program's request to be borderless. While KDE goes as far as allowing the user to toggle a checkbox to remove a window's border, the Unix Window Manager doesn't even honor a programs request to be borderless. This makes it hard to make a terminal emulator look as if it's part of the desktop background. Although I didn't have any success with it, a patch has been circulating the Internet that allows for aterm to be borderless even while being run in a window manager that doesn't support this request.

aterm's default look is a little drab. I recommend launching it using the following options:

aterm -tr -sh 20 +sb -fn courier

In plain English, this launches aterm using transparency with 20% of the root window's graphic, no scrollbar because Shift + PgUp/Dn work too, and the courier font because the default is ugly. Use xfontsel if you want to see what other fonts are also available on your particular system.

Galatians

St. Paul wrote to the Galatians urging them to return to living by faith in Jesus. After all, Jesus died as a perfect man on the cross so that we wouldn't have to pay for our sins if we would accept his sacrifice. The Galatians had become traits to Christ by returning to their traditional lives of following the law of the Old Testament. St. Paul believed that there were a few Galatians who were attempting to get the rest to follow the law again just so that they could brag about winning people over to their side and look good. Although disgusted by the situation, St. Paul had faith in the Galatians to return to their faith in Jesus. One last interesting point mentioned in Galatians: Even though we, as Christians, have freedom in our lives, it is still possible for us to destroy it.