When comparing foot vs ROXTerm, the Slant community recommends ROXTerm for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux terminal emulators for low-resource machines?” ROXTerm is ranked 16th while foot is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose ROXTerm is:
ROXTerm supports dragging and dropping items into the Terminal window.
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Pros
Pro On-the-fly font resize
Pro IME (via text-input-v3)
Pro On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
Pro DE agnostic
Pro Server/daemon mode
Pro True Color (24bpp)
Pro Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
Pro Synchronized Updates support
Pro Keyboard driven URL detection
Pro Sixel image support
Pro Color emoji support
Pro Multi-seat
Pro Wayland native
Pro Fast
Pro User configurable font fallback
Pro Scrollback search
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 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.