Yakuake vs st

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal. This means that you can press, for example, F12, and it slides downward from the top edge of the screen. After you are done with it, you can then hit F12 again and it slides back on top.

Almost everything in Yakuake is customizable: from split view, fullscreen mode, configurable dimensions, to animation speed and keybindings.

You can easily split any tab into different windows and run several commands at the same time then monitor and change them with ease. You won't find this feature in guake or tilda!

Yakuake supports tabs, while working with several tabs is very easy. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Shift + left/right arrow.

When an activity is let working (e.g.: compiling some source or upgrading some system), and you forgot it, a nice popup and sound will alert you when the command prompt returned on that term.

You can scroll, inside the same terminal session, infinitely, so no command should be lost, even it isn't stored yet on history.

Opens at 40MB and stays below 100MB with some tabs splitted in four each. So if you need to have many terminals emulators opened in your desktop environment, is the a very light solution for all the features it includes.

Search directly in your favourite search engine just by selecting something and right clicking. It will open the browser result page.

You can move through terminals with Ctrl+Shift+Cursors or tabs with Shift+Cursor keys, so no need to touch you mouse or pad, making working with terms even faster.

Window composition and commands inside can be scripted using qdbus.
You can make desktop shortcuts to automatically create tabs, split windows and connect to ssh sessions or launch monitoring programms. Very useful.

As the entire Plasma Desktop, yakuake already has full support for Wayland.

You can save the output of a terminal directly to a text file, to work properly with it later.

You can configure yakuake to show a visual altert when you change the terminal. So even if you have many splittings and you don't use the mouse to change between them, you can easily see where you are at any moment.

st is built to serve as a lightweight terminal emulator. It's very light and doesn't require many resources to run, making it able to run well on older and low-end machines.

st consists of a single C file that takes seconds to recompile. This also makes it very easy to understand and customize.

st supports color escape sequences for a full 16 million 24-bit color spectrum, instead of the typical 256 colors.

There is full XFT (X Free Type interface library) and fallback font support through fontconfig in st. If your selected font is missing a certain glyph or symbol, but one of your other installed fonts has it, it will be shown.

Copyfree licensing implies that the user has the freedom to copy, use, modify, and distribute what he/she possesses.

Handles image previews (e.g. in ranger) way better than other terminal emulators.

The patches on the site are great. Scroll back, hide the mouse, etc.

Hackable and lightweight.

it is extremely responsive and fast, even on older computers.

The terminal doesn't have any bloated features nobody uses. It is very minimal and extendable.