When comparing EvilVTE vs ROXTerm, the Slant community recommends ROXTerm for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” ROXTerm is ranked 21st while EvilVTE is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose ROXTerm is:
ROXTerm supports dragging and dropping items into the Terminal window.
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Pros
Pro Small and lightweight
EvilVTE is a very small and lightweight terminal emulator. It has a pretty small codebase and very few dependencies.
Pro Drag and drop
ROXTerm supports dragging and dropping items into the Terminal window.
Pro Advanced D-Bus usage
In ROXTerm, users can use D-Bus to configure terminals from other applications, allowing for communication between multiple computer programs.
Pro Includes a configuration manager
ROXTerm includes a configuration manager which can easily be run by selecting Configure...
in the terminal's menu, or by simply running roxterm-config
. You can then easily swap configuration files with other users, manage profiles, and customize things like color schemes or keyboard shortcuts.
Pro Supports GTK3
ROXTerm uses the latest GTK widget set which is great a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
Cons
Con Customization only through C header files
Con Not very powerful
Even for a terminal that aims to be as lightweight as possible it's still not as powerful as it should be. It doesn't have many features found in other options and it's not very customizable.
Con Uncertain future
The original developer, Tony Houghton, declared the death of Roxterm on 2016-05 at https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/?limit=25#3fc9.
In 2018, work began to resume on Github rather than Sourceforge (https://github.com/realh/roxterm/issues/1) but the future maintenance is uncertain.
Con Not for regular users
ROXTerm is made for power users who spend most of their time on the terminal. For a regular user using ROXTerm it would be an overkill.