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anyone know of any Linux terminals that do .. [1] background colour highlights command invokations e.g. each successive command & output occurs on alternating increase/decrease in hue. [2] configurable right-click menu i.e. so you can make right clicking on a word allows executing user configurable commands

Good afternoon... I disagree that this is not too many customizations, I just think you are approaching the problem from the wrong end. It should not be a terminal's job to highlight commands vs output, that is the shells job. The shell is the program that knows what stuff is commands and what is output. By customizing the shell, ANY terminal can display alternating colors for commands vs outout, and even alternate colors for successive commands. My shell of choice happens to be zsh, and by customizing both the PS1 variable and changing the special preexec() and precmd() functions I am able to customize a lot of the look and feel of both input and output ... for example passing on notices to other programs about what commands have or have not been run, selectively logging command history to shared accounts, etc. As for rick-click menus, this also doesn't seem like the right job for a terminal. A terminal doesn't have very much context for what is happening inside it ... it's just as much gibberish as it looks like to your mother. The most obvious use for such a feature I have is for looking up usage of functions while I am programming. Since I use VIM as an editor, I have it setup to recognize the language I am programming in and with one keystroke I can look up the manual entry for whatever word happens to be under my cursor. You should be able to do this with most major editors. If you need this kind of function in your shell, I suggest using screen as a wrapper to your shell as it can handle having a cursor and could be programed to run custom commands based on what words were copied to it's internal clipboard from the shell output. Caleb