When comparing Blackbox vs Sakura, the Slant community recommends Sakura for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” Sakura is ranked 6th while Blackbox is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Sakura is:
Sakura has very few dependencies, it's very lightweight, and great if your computer does not have many resources.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
Sakura has very few dependencies, it's very lightweight, and great if your computer does not have many resources.
Pro True colour support
Supports full 24-bit color.
Pro Great unicode support
Even shows combining chars correctly.
Pro Few dependencies
Pro Starts quickly even on lower-end machines
Sakura's quick start-up time becomes noticeable with lower-end machine's such as Eeepc 1015PX (Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM).
Pro Tab support
Pro Easy zoom
Sakura supports zooming through keyboard keys (Ctrl+'+'
to zoom in and Ctrl+'-'
to zoom out).
Pro Ready for wayland
Cons
Con If you like fancy bells and whistles you will not like the simplicity of blackbox.
You will not like blackbox if you can't use a text editor to make a changes to your desktop or customized application menu.
Con libvte/gtk
It has gnome dependencies.
Con Doesn't provide many configuration options
Sakura does not have any advanced configuration capabilities.