On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:22:20 +0100
"J. Fahrner" <jf@???> wrote:

> Am 2018-01-03 16:21, schrieb Steve Litt:
>
> > Irrwahn, thanks for turning me on to Sakura. I'll be using it a lot
> > in the future.
> >
> > Sakura is a great terminal emulator with abyssmal documentation.
>
> Any advantages over lxterminal?

Yes. It's different from lxterminal, which is an advantage. IMHO, the
more terminal emulator programs you have, the better. So:

lxterminal + Sakura > lxterminal

lxterminal + Sakura > Sakura

I have no opinion as to whether lxterminal alone is better than Sakura
alone. They're both excellent (as is xfce4-terminal).

I would say that a keyboard-centric type of person might gravitate
toward Sakura because of the many changes that can be made with obvious
hotkeys. Also, the person wanting to maximize screen real estate might
like Sakura without tabs and without a scrollbar.

People liking mice and/or a menu driven interface will probably be more
attracted to lxterminal or xfce4-terminal. For this reason I would make
lxterminal or xfce4-terminal the default terminal on a Linux
distribution.

By the way, I would rate any of the three terminals discussed above as
superior to xterm, aterm, and Suckless st. I'd also rate them above
gnome-terminal and kterm because they don't drag in huge monolithic
entanglements (perhaps that might be questionable on xfce4-terminal ---
I'll leave that to the reader's decision).

SteveT

Steve Litt
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