Jesus, I'd been using gnome-terminal sine I switched over to Linux full-time a few months ago. I assumed that the reason it was sluggish was because I'm running

Jesus, I'd been using gnome-terminal sine I switched over to Linux full-time a few months ago. I assumed that the reason it was sluggish was because I'm running it on an old machine. I just installed rxvt-unicode after re-reading your post, and even after enabling a background image for no good reason it blows gnome-terminal away. Thanks a lot, this is something worth knowing.