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foot vs LXTerminal
When comparing foot vs LXTerminal, the Slant community recommends foot for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland terminal emulators?” foot is ranked 3rd while LXTerminal is ranked 10th.
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Pros
Pro Fast startup time
Pro Sixel support
Pro Support for opening a new window in the same directory
Pro Simple configuration
Pro Fast compiling time, few dependencies
Pro Lightweight
LXTerm is the official terminal for the LXDE desktop environment, which is a very light DE in itself. So LXTerminal is a very good choice for lower-end systems.
Pro Multiple tabs support
LXTerminal supports working with multiple tabs and tab-based navigation.
Pro Built-in transparency
Pro Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Pro Lighhtweight and ticks most boxes.
Pro Customize-able background/foreground colors
Cons
Con Does not support ligatures
foot is unable to render special font ligatures.
Con No inner border
Con Bad search support
Ctrl-Shift-R search is a pain in the ass and Ctrl-W kills the terminal too often.
Con Not very customizable
LXTerminal, like XTerminal and UXTerminal, is not very customizable and extendable (at least not as much as other terminal emulators).