* Tabs In Terminal when you cycle through tabs, the default behaviour is to stop at theend and at the beginning. For xfce4-terminal, we have set an hidden option in ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc, called MiscCycleTabs, and set to true by default, so the prev/next tab command will cycle. You can change this by adding a line with MiscCycleTabs=FALSE in the terminalrc file. * dbus If you want to use dbus support with xfce4-terminal, you should install the package dbus-1-utils, then make sure that your session runs it. (if you run a plain xfce4, the init script launch it, so just log out and log back in) When using dbus, if there's already a xfce4-terminal running, calling xfce4-terminal will return instantly (it's just a call to the running instance to open another window). If you use xfce4-terminal from a script (for example to display something from mutt, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=434863) you may want to call xfce4-terminal with --disable-server. * backspace using screen To delete text with backspace under screen you need to set BindingBackspace=TERMINAL_ERASE_BINDING_ASCII_DELETE in ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc