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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

I've recently begun using virtual terminals for firing up the many console
apps I use under BL2 (e.g., Pine, naim, Links and Lynx, MC etc).  As I
understand it, Linux typically allows 7 such virtual terminals, while BL2
seems to be limited to 5.  Having run into situations lately where I've
needed to shutdown apps to free up a virtual terminal for an app I want to
start, I've begun to wonder what the relative advantages/disadvantages of
running console apps in this way are as opposed to simply starting icewm
and running those programs under xterminals there.  It seems
commonsensical that the less system intensive method of running such apps
would be using virtual terminals, or at least so I would presume.
However, Steven has noted in the past that, at least in the case of X apps
(Netscape was his focus, I believe), running such an app in a virtual
terminal using xinit was less efficient than running it under icewm.  Can
anyone comment on the relative efficiency of running apps in the two ways
described?  Note that I am talking primarily about console apps that would
require an xterminal under icewm, rather than the X app Steven was
addressing in his earlier remarks.

Thanks, James