<p>I'm trying to have the same KDE Konsole experience within Mac OS X.</p>

<p>Here's my (overly complicated?) setup:</p>

<ul>
<li>I have Control and Command swapped at the System Preferences level.  (Can't live without this)</li>
<li>Parallels lets you, at the Parallels application level, also reverse Control and Command.  So I can undo the System Preferences setting (and get the setup I want within virtual Linux)</li>
</ul>

<p>I want this same per-application-opt-out for the Mac OS X Terminal app.  Is it possible?</p>

You can
simply ssh into the Linux/Unix system
and run X11 programs direct to your Mac screen:
```
ssh -X user@host_or_ipaddress
```
, login, and just run the X11 programs you want (e.g.
```
emacs&
```
) and the X11 apps will appear on the Mac display.
Pros:
X11 windows work just like any other window, including Exposé goodness, etc...
No need to work only inside the Parallels console window
Same solution works with any Linux/Unix system, remote or virtual
ssh connection is secure even over the internet
Tech info:
"ssh -X" turns on X11 forwarding for the ssh connection, i.e. the X11 display connection is tunneled through ssh securely
"ssh -X" also handles X11 authentication tunneling
```
X11.app
```
is automagically started on OSX by
```
launchd
```
when needed
X11 can connect to displays over the network, which is one of the few cool things about it ;-)