Where can I find information on embedding a shell into my desktop? Google likes to bring up a lot of **** about cell phones as soon as you combine the words linux and embedded.

What I mean by embedded shell is a shell that will NOT move, has no menu, no borders, no nothing except a prompt, sitting kindly in the very back of all my desktops so that I don't have to dedicate a desktop to shells.

It's a pain in the *** to just add a term window to each desktop, each of which already having between 3 and 6 windows when I'm on break.

If it matters, I'm using Solaris Java Desktop, which I hear is heavily based on Gnome, and has Gnome all through it in docs and config files.