There are some varients I put in my version, for a start I add "-e tcsh" because that's the shell I like. The next thing is to have a fixed set of fg/bg pairs (for example black/white, white/black, green/yellow, yellow/green) to give me context ("That was in the horrible pink xterm wasn't it"). Finally I fire off a set of xterms with a 1 second delay to let me select different CDE screens and make sure every CDE screen has an xterm on it.

Maybe some of this will be of use