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Add to SafariWhen comparing Eterm vs QTerminal, the Slant community recommends QTerminal for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” QTerminal is ranked 20th while Eterm is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose QTerminal is:
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
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Pros
Pro Requires very little memory
Eterm requires only around 9 MB of RAM per terminal instance.
Pro Transparency support
Eterm has pseudo-transparency support. This allows the user to make windows look less imposing (particularly in Terminal emulators which can comprise large chunks of text).
Pro Font ligatures
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
Pro Lightweight
Compared to many terminal emulators, QTerminal is lightweight with fewer dependencies than most.
Cons
Con Focuses too much on looking pretty
Eterm focuses a lot on being customizable and looking good, instead of focusing on features or power.
Con Window resize
Resizing the window does not resize the contents, like rxvt-unicode does.
Con Strange default paste action
When pasting into QTerminal, one has to be careful as it assumes immediate execution.
