When comparing EvilVTE 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 EvilVTE is ranked 32nd. 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 Small and lightweight
EvilVTE is a very small and lightweight terminal emulator. It has a pretty small codebase and very few dependencies.
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 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 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.