iTerm

No, you need X11 only to run X11 -programs. Other (console) programs work just fine on Terminal.app (I use ITerm.app, but that is another story).

in Mac terminal. If you customize xterm, it looks and works much better. iTerm too for that matter. ...

I've installed kde's konsole terminal app mainly because its faster than iterm and has tabs which terminal app lacks. ...

and... iTerm: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17484 an enhanced version of terminal offering tabbed terminal sessions. that aone is worth the download. also a few other little frills. Cyberduck: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14426 i used to use fugu, but after trying cyberduck i gave it the ol' heave-ho. it's a free sftp client...

I'm a Unix guy. I want it to work so as when I download a file to my Home, it shows up on my desktop. When I download a file to my desktop, I want it to be listed when I ls /Users/anderas in iTerm, so I can manipulate the file fast from both the command line and Finder. Aliasing each folder from my home to my Desktop would not create that effect!

I'd like ".txt" files on my desktop to open in vim in a new window in iTerm by default. ...

I tried messing around with the Connect To Server section in Terminal and the only thing I could get it to do was select the name I would log in with and the hostname. If anybody knows anyway that I can make it so I can log in without having to type my hard to remember password each time in Terminal (besides using iTerm) I'd appreciate it.

use iTerm http://iterm.sourceforge.net/ which will allow you to create multiple bookmarks for different logins to different machines. Configure each bookmark to login using ssh by using the -e /usr/bin/ssh switch. Create public/private keys for SSH and move your public keys to the remote servers. You can then SSH to the remote server and not be asked for your...

I tried that, this is what I got: timhuntley% fink install gimp sudo /sw/bin/fink install gimp Password: Information about 50 packages read in 2 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'! timhuntley% :-\

It might just be a problem with fink commander. In a terminal (iterm, term, Xdarwin, etc) try this: fink install gimp If it is just a problem with fink commander, then it will install.