> In GNOME, terminals are not children of the window manager, or even of
> the session manager. When you ask for a terminal, GNOME sends a letter
> to dbus, asking dbus to please make a terminal. Your gnome-terminal
> is a child of dbus, and inherits its environment from dbus.
Is that how `gnome-terminal` works? That doesn't apply to `xterm` right?
How does it get the access rights to the display, then?
Stefan