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Add to SafariWhen comparing Wterm vs Pantheon Terminal, the Slant community recommends Pantheon Terminal for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” Pantheon Terminal is ranked 17th while Wterm is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Pantheon Terminal is:
When a process has ended, Pantheon Terminal sends a notification bubble to the desktop notification server and indicates which tab generated the notification.
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Pros
Pro Fast
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
Pro Memory efficient
Each instance requires only about 6.3 MB of RAM, even with 10.000 lines of buffer.
Pro End process notifications
When a process has ended, Pantheon Terminal sends a notification bubble to the desktop notification server and indicates which tab generated the notification.
Pro Can easily restore a previous session
Pantheon Terminal remembers the window size, position, windowed/maximized/fullscreen state, and open tabs in between sessions.
Pro Advanced tab handling
Using the Granite Dynamic Notebook widget (which includes tab close history), double click the tab bar for a new tab, duplicating tabs, quickly closing all other tabs, auto-hiding/revealing tab close buttons, etc.
Pro Smart copy and paste
The keyboard shortcut for copy + paste is intelligently adapted andnbased on text selection and clipboard state. This makes it possible to use standard copy + paste shortcuts without colliding with standard ctrl + c behavior in the Terminal.
Pro Search feature
Cons
Con The official repository is inactive
The official repository for Wterm seems to be inactive, with open bug reports as far back as 2006.
Con Heavy
Con limited customization options
Con RAM usage increases considerably over time
There is a RAM leak when using the Pantheon Terminal that adds up over time and use.
Con Incompatible with LTS Ubuntu
Pantheon is developed and binaries are released for a near blessing edge operating system (elementary OS). As such, installing it on an LTS Ubuntu system may be nearly impossible without replacing a large portion of the LTS stack that Ubuntu-targeted software expects.
Con Restrictive license
