st vs software.jessies.org terminator

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.

Due to UTF-8, this terminator won't mangle your favorite accented characters, and it copes well with languages where there's a mix of normal and wide glyphs (such as Greek).

Terminator won't throw away output when it scrolls off the top of the screen, nor when it reaches any arbitrary limit.

This is just like tabbed browsing, only with terminals, and means that multiple pages or documents are contained in a single window.

Most terminal emulators wrap text when it intrudes upon the right margin. Terminator doesn't; it instead provides a horizontal scrollbar when necessary.