Sadly I can't search "x-terminal" in our archive in gmane and all that I found throught google was at least 3 years old. The only promising thing I found was this thread on fedora-devel-list:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00757.html
... from that list it looks like I should get to know and use LCFG http://www.lcfg.org/
not becaue I need it fro my little laptop, but because it's scalable etc.
So, opinions, links and help greatly accepted.
Duncan