Fluxbox xfce4-terminal do not cooperate...

Hello
I use fluxbox with xfce4-terminal and i've got serious problem...
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/597/sc … 401753.png
my terminal do not cooperate with fluxbox:
do not have window borders (even when i set in ~./fluxbox/apps decoratino normal to terminal)
and is always on top... (which is ... bad)
this do not happend at start, only after a few minits terminal losts window borders etc...
do you have any suggestions? or something, please....
P.S: 3.1.5-1 kernel, Fluxbox 1.3.2 and terminal 0.4.8

Well, as for A. I don't like it either, but sometimes it's not worth spending time on things that can be resolved in a different way.
And for B.: here you have a comprehensive list of terminal emulators. If you wish to have something with similar layout / functionality / configuration style to XFCE4 terminal, you may pick up Roxterm for example, or Terminator. I for one have been using rxvt-unicode for a very long time, but it's just one of my idiosyncrasies.

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https://imageshack.com/i/5h6zjyp
After restarting Fluxbox via the menu, the problem disappears:
https://imageshack.com/i/eujw16p
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Begin original post:
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