guake - a cool top down terminal for Gnome

http://guake.org/

It's just cool....
try it:

# sudo aptitude install guake

nohup - run a command immune to hangups (terminal close)

Say you're on business trip, ssh to a remote server, run a command to compile some huge source code which take hours, or process date which takes days, but then you need to close your laptop and run the next site.  Closing the terminal will also kill all the process you started.  What should you do?

nohup is is there to help you.:

NAME
       nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

SYNOPSIS
       nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
       nohup OPTION

DESCRIPTION
       Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.

Take an example of compiling a fresh configured buildroot, depends on the packages selected it takes hours/days to download the sources and compile:

EXAMPLE
       $ nohup make buildroot &

Then the buildroot compilation will continue after you close your terminal/laptop.

Audacious Headless and Keyboard Shortucts

Audacious is an open source audio player, a descendant of XMMS, light-weighted and very similar to MS Windows winamp.

However, by default it does not recognize keyboard shortcuts play/pause/prev/next.

In Audacious preferences (right click on the the right lower corner "a" logo, in the pop-up menu choose preference), -->plugins  --> general tab --> check the "Global Hotkey" plugin, then it would recognize those shortcut keys.  I would prefer Audacious to enable this by default..