At least rxvt can run in daemon mode so you don't pay a full penalty for each instance, but it's still a bit OTT. Why not tmux for your ad-hoc terminals. Less l

At least rxvt can run in daemon mode so you don't pay a full penalty for each instance, but it's still a bit OTT. Why not tmux for your ad-hoc terminals. Less likely to forget about them and they're easily managed.