When comparing Sakura vs Eterm, 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 Eterm is ranked 31st. 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
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).
Cons
Con libvte/gtk
It has gnome dependencies.
Con Doesn't provide many configuration options
Sakura does not have any advanced configuration capabilities.
Con Focuses too much on looking pretty
Eterm focuses a lot on being customizable and looking good, instead of focusing on features or power.