luke@cockatoo:~$ ps aux | grep xterm
luke     18794  0.0  0.2  1336  428 pts/6    R    01:19   0:00 grep xterm
luke@cockatoo:~$

By switching from xterms to eterms, my dear laptop is now populately solely by Emacs windows - a tremendous personal achievement! It results directly from the breakage of the "mouse button" on my Thinkpad a few months ago, which taught me that a mouse is a lousy substitute for some Emacs and Sawfish hacking :-)

(I still use a mouse for Netscape on my desktop machine at work, w3m not being so universal. One step at a time..)