When comparing Xiki vs Sakura, 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 Xiki is ranked 23rd. 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 Adds GUI features
Xiki uses some GUI concepts on top of shell. For example, commands can have nested menus and these menus are just text indented by two spaces. You can also either use the mouse or the keyboard to navigate or issue commands.
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
Cons
Con Requires learning many new concepts and ways of using them
Xiki adds a lot of concepts which are not found on other terminals. You have to learn a lot of new tricks to make it useful which unfortunately you cannot use on other terminal emulators.
Con libvte/gtk
It has gnome dependencies.
Con Doesn't provide many configuration options
Sakura does not have any advanced configuration capabilities.