Apps won't download if xterm is lxterminal instead of aterm. It opens a window but nothing happens. Looking at the lxterminal-xterm wrapper script it looks like the variables got lost along the way.
#!/bin/busybox sh
######################################################
# lxterminal xterm wrapper for Tiny Core Linux 5.x
# By bmarkus
# v1.0 - October 15, 2013
######################################################
a=0
c=
for v in
do
if [ == 0 ]
then
if [ == -g ]
then
a=1
c=--geometry=
elif [ == -e ]
then
a=2
c=
fi
elif [ == 1 ]
then
a=0
c=
elif [ == 2 ]
then
c=
fi
done
lxterminal